It was all action this morning as the Sarawak Orchid Propagation Project partners gathered at MRSM school for the official opening of the propagation laboratory. Students, Sarawak Orchid Society, Mayor Kuching North, educationalists and academics. The Chief Minister’s Wife arrived at 10am and was given a very professional tour of the new laboratory by the […]

  While we enjoy the excitement of Kuching our orchids continue to sparkle back at school and we have a visit by the Britain in bl0om judges on Friday. This species is found in the wild in Mexico, Guatemala and El  Salvador in dryish oak forest from 1200m to about 2000m. We grow it with a […]

We started the day by meeting the Mayor of Kuching City North to discuss the project and the forthcoming APOC show. We then managed a short while at the Kuching Cat Museum where we learnt all about the five wild cat species of Sarawak and the domestic cats too. The three below are definitely the […]

 We showed you Gongora Unicolor and maculata yesterday so here is a closer look at Gongora unicolor. This fragrant species (kind of sweet spicy) is from Central America, so no plants of it here in Sarawak. Though it is always lovely to share our orchids of the tropical world with a new community of orchid […]

After a quick freshen up at our hotel we headed to MRSM School where we met the student team Nat, Maira, Nina and Alwinas well as the lead teacher Hamidah, the Head, and the amazing team from the Sarawak Orchid Society We unpacked the air-freighted lamina flow cabinet, the lab that had travelled successfully in […]