Our trip to Rwanda is coming up quickly. The three students who are due to go are really exited and the plants are too as they have just reserved there import certificate.

Friday was Danish day in Orchid Project with twenty teachers visiting from Denmark to find out about Science at Writhlington. Their visit included learning orchid propagation techniques with Zoe Parfitt, Jacob Coles, Misha Harvey and Georgia Hughes. Two laminar flow cabinets were in use to teach both seed sowing and re-plating techniques. The visitors really […]

This is the beginning of our day in the snow. Our plan is to build an igloo. No useful things done yet but there is still time.

Winter snows have returned to the West Country and so school is closed for the day – except for the Orchid Project of course.   Come on Jacob we know that Laelia anceps is cool growing but that is ridiculous! It is still snowing hard as I write and so we may be stuck here […]

If you missed WSBEorchids on BBC 1’S Inside Out West, you can watch it here. *   *=(this link will take you to another site)