This weekend is Bristol Botanic Garden’s Bee and Pollination festival. As usual it was up to Writhlington to prove that bees are not the only pollinators.  Simon and Otto joined us to help with our quest.  We set at off at 7am, from the Writhlington greenhouse, with Simons van loaded with orchids.  Much to Simon’s […]

Charles Darwin lived at Down House, Orpington Kent, from 1842 until he died in 1882.  He shared the house with Emma his wife and ten children.  Unfortunately English Heritage did not allow photography in the house. Here is a photo of the house from the garden. Charles Darwin came from a wealthy family.  His father […]

This weekend Writhlington Orchid Project will be attending Bristol Botanic Gardens Bee and Pollination Festival. We will have a display featuring some of our beautiful orchids and information about their unusual pollinators. It has been a busy morning in the Writhlington greenhouses preparing our plants for our sales table, shown below. We have plenty of […]

Restrepias can be propagated by splitting, potting a keiki or by taking leaf cuttings.  All of these forms of propagation produce identical genetic copies of the mother plant.  Below is Restrepia wageneri in flower. Before starting a leaf cutting you will need Methylated Spirits, with which to sterilise a pair of scissors, a pot large […]

Killerton House would not look out of place in a Jane Austen production.  It is home to the National Trust’s 20,000 items of fashion collection.  The house sits in a Capability Brown style park and grade 2* listed garden. The gardens are full of exotic trees from every continent in the world with the exception […]