Ok, First of all I’m not the normal person to post here, on the homepage of the Writhlington Orchid Project website, so I do apologise if this is a little shabby. Going back on topic now, I received an update from our team in Sikkim this morning. The update tells us that in the first […]
Hello all, we are at heathrow terminal 5 and have found internet acess. Everything is looking good for the trip and Mohan has aranged a meeting with His Excellency the Govener of Sikkim. We go through security at 12:20 and board the aircraft at 15:00. We’re all fairly excited and will posibly upload pictures once […]
A soon as we get back from London we have the daunting prospect of going to Sikkim at the end of the week. For myself and Luke Shackleton (one of three Lukes) this is the first expedition with proper jungle and we are both very excited. Both Luke Lucas and Ben Stokes have been on […]
A groundbreaking conservation project linking Writhlington School students with the gardeners of Gangtok is making a real difference in Himalayan conservation as well as providing a model for effective international community co-operation. Students at Writhlington who have become experts in orchids and raising these exotic plants from seed in a dedicated propagation laboratory have used […]
Exciting news – the orchid project is going to Sikkim! The Sikkim Himalayan project had been working slowly for about three years now. The Project involves students in the lab growing the rare species ‘Cymbidium Whitea’. There are very few of these plants remaining in the wild and they are only known to come from […]