Good news blog watchers…..it rained on sports day, a bit of a pain for the unicycle race but great news for the orchids. At Writhlington we water our plants with rainwater because tap water in Radstock has too many dissolved salts (a conductivity of around 500 micro-siemens). Rain water has a conductivity of just 20 micro-siemens so […]

The beautiful Mexican Orchid Barkeria spectabilis Next monday we host a visit from the Britain in Bloom judges because as usual we are included as part of Radstock in bloom. We think we are all set, a team to conduct the greenhouse tour, extra signs to highlight plants of interest like the Barkeria shown here and […]

With just four weeks left of term it’s all hands to the orchid lab at Writhlington. Our plan is to complete at least 30 jars of seedlings every day until July 23rd. This will give us 600 jars of seedlings growing and ready for our customers to buy at the London Orchid show next year. To […]

It seems that the summer is really here…..it must be because the older members of greenhouse club are stuck in exams all day! Summer is the time that most tropical orchids do most of their growing as summer is the wet season in tropical climates.  So what should you be doing to keep your orchids […]

I hope everyone likes the web cams. I keep logging on to check the greenhouse at night and suprise suprise ….it’s dark. Teachers! Anyway, I couldn’t let the chance pass to thank Dan Groves publically for all his work on wsbeorchids.org.uk and earlier versions of the orchid project website. Dan has now finished his sixth […]