Sumptuous is the Writhlington word of the week and here is our collection of sumptuous, stripy and dotty orchids in the greenhouse this week. To start off our display of luxurious orchids is Cymbidium tracyanum, just come into flower, looking like it is sprinkled with cinnamon. The little Restrepia orchids repotted during the summer holidays […]
Now the days are shorter and the skies cloudy the greenhouse was feeling quite gloomy. It was definitely time to remove the ‘grow your own shading’ from our greenhouse windows. The students set to work this lunch time with kitchen scourers and warm soapy water to remove the algae and moss that was growing there. […]
From time to time our greenhouse floors become slippery. This is caused by naturally occurring algae growing on them. It is particularly bad after the summer when bright sunlight seems to stimulate the algae into growth. The nutrients in our orchid feed not only feed our orchids but our algae too. In our greenhouse we […]
The greenhouse is alive with Barbie pink this week. If you like the smell of chocolate Oncidium ornithorhynchum is the orchid for you. It is native to Central America and we grow it in Cool Americas. I think it makes a lovely house plant with it’s delicate pink flowers Cattleya bowringiana is still flowering […]
I have been away in Faversham for a few days, leaving Lillie and Isabelle, the youngest members of the Orchid Project, in charge of the greenhouse. This time of year the greenhouse needs to be watered every other day as the weather is not too hot but not so cold that heating causes the plants […]