My sister Issy, and I have been using our time in lockdown to explore the countryside around where we live on the outskirts of Radstock. On our daily walk yesterday we were delighted to come across a small population of Pyramidal orchids, Anacamptis pyramidalis, growing amongst a meadow of Oxeye daisies – we counted seven […]

Today was our last day working at the Eden Project this week. We spent the morning in Eden’s nursery helping Nicki to re-pot some Moringas and some Bromeliads. We then went down to the tropical biome to plant some Coelogynes in hanging baskets for the Malaysian house there. We have had a great week working […]

Today was our fourth day working at the Eden Project. This morning we went up in the cherry picker to prune some of the trees and then planted some Coelogynes in hanging baskets for the Malaysian area. We spent the afternoon putting sphagnum moss around the orchids in the biome. Tomorrow we are going to […]

Today was our third day working at the Eden Project. We started the day by feeding the Rulruls again and then helped with watering. We then walked around the biome with Hetty and planned where we will hopefully plant orchids. Whilst doing this we found a baby gecko and a tree frog. Tomorrow we are […]

Today was our second day working at the Eden Project. We started the morning off by helping to feed the Rulrul birds who live in the tropical biome. We then helped to remove some old leaves from the banana plants and did some weeding the in Malaysian area. We spent the afternoon planting two orchids, […]