After yesterdays wind and hail, today was a warm and sunny, Sunday morning, in the greenhouse.  Our temperate section is filled with lovely Cymbidium flowers at the moment.  This one is a hybrid that was donated a couple of years ago and this is the first flowering at Writhlington. It is a cross between Yai […]

Here is my Coelogyne confusa flowering.  We do not have seem to have a specimen growing in the Writhlington greenhouses so I thought I would show mine.  Coelogyne confusa is native to the Philippines growing between 900 meters and 1300 meters.  It is an epiphyte and is known as the confused Coelogyne because it is […]

Well, here we all are at the RHS London Orchid Show 2024.  It was lovely to be in the Lindley Hall again with our orchid friends. Thursday was set up day starting, at 5 o’clock in the morning, at Writhlington Orchid Project HQ, where we loaded the van with our display and sales plants, before […]

I went to water the greenhouse on Friday afternoon and discovered there was no electricity to run the pump for the hose.  Our facilities team told me it could not be mended until Monday. What a disaster!  Well its back to old Victorian style technology, hand pumping and spraying the orchids with water.  This would […]

Saturday was the celebration of 50 years of  the Wessex Orchid Society.  The show was held in Portchester Hampshire.  The members of the Wessex society created the lovely display shown below.  I really liked the use of Spanish moss on the backdrop. There were unusual orchids Dendrobium spectabile, from New Guinea and the Solomon islands, […]