It has been trophy time at the BOC and the orchid project has won both top prizes – Best Display and Best Orchid in Show. Trophy time. Well done again to Chloe, Jacob and Jess here, as well as all the team back at school for growing such great plants.

 We have recently moved to brown paper bags for our orchid sales (modelled here by one of today’s customers) – well received and ideal for safe packing of plants.

We have had a  very successful morning at the British Orchid Congress with a number of awards for plants. Our rosette winners are shown below: Scaphosepalum verrucosum – Best Pleuro Dendrochilum cobbianum – best Coelogyne  Aerangis biloba – best Angraecoid Oberonia miniata-Best any otherCoelogyne ovalis- 2nd CoelognyeOncidium cristatum- Best Oncidinae  

We arrived at Norwich yesterday and spent the first four hours putting up our display – which looks amazing. Well done to Jess, Chloe, Jacob and Annie. Preview evening last night gave us a chance to look around at all the orchid diversity here and meet up with our orchid friends from across the Uk […]

After a hard but enjoyable day’s work the new Bristol Aquarium Cloud Forest Orchid Display is all planted and ready for us to add information names and interactive activities. The display includes fifty five orchid species and these are grouped by pollinator – Bee, butterfly, moth, humming bird, ant, fly and midge/gnat. If you want […]