After studying in Canterbury for the past three years, it has been a point of personal embarrassment to me that up until this spring I’d never before seen a wild orchid in Kent. For those new to the blog, I studied at Writhlington between 2010 and 2017 and was part of the orchid project for […]

This easy to grow terrestrial Aroid is widespread across sub temperate areas of the Himalayas, including Sikkim, whilst not an orchid, it’s interesting enough to warrant a place on the blog. It’s annual growth cycle is unlike any orchid, entering a winter dormancy where the bulbs can be stored out of any compost and entirely […]

Following on from Heather’s fantastic post I thought it was time to write up my version. I left Writhlington a full year ago now to study a degree in Wildlife Conservation at the University of Kent. Whilst the course is a very general conservation based course, I  have been squeezing orchids into as many pieces […]

The show has now drawn to a close, and it held some very interesting and remarkable species, mostly on the Ecuagenera display. amongst them was the grand champion plant, a large Dendrobium parvulum, a species that you really do not see enough in the UK. Some of the other notable plants were several Phragmipedium kovachii, […]

As Simon said last week, I have travelled to Ecuador to attend and speak at the 22nd World Orchid Conference. Tuesday was the first full day of the conference, which was full of interesting speakers. I spent the day looking around the conference’s displays and the plants on show, including a display of wonderful Phalaenopsis […]