We are delighted that the West Country Woodcarvers will be joining us for the British orchid Show and Congress next Saturday and Sunday (3rd and 4th Nov). They are regulars at Writhlington Shows and always add extra interest. They will be working in the technology rooms and happy to show their work and talk about […]

We have a wonderful of diversity of orchid species ready to share with visitors to the British Orchid Show and Congress next week. We only have one genus of orchids beginning with X and that is Xylobium. Xylobium is a genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids from South and Central America and we saw one […]

Yesterday I showed some of our efforts to get ready for the big show next weekend. Here are some more photos – James working on the Laser Cutter to create his amazing trophies (check judging classes etc here)   The Orchid project sales table is coming on thanks to Jess’ efforts – we will have […]

We have several plants of this gorgeous species coming into flower in the greenhouse. This Barkeria is found in from Mexico to Costa Rica in warm deciduous forest where it experiences a distinct dry season. It responds to the dry habitat by producing a mass of roots and growing tall canes rapidly during the summer […]

All registrants will get a unique hand printed registrants bag thanks to the hard work of James (who designed the print block and made it on the laser cutter) Ed who printed all 180 bags and Agnes (who was Ed’s production line and chief ironer to make the dye fast) In other parts of the […]