With 4 months to go until we head off on our expedition to Rwanda, we are preparing the seed to take with us. On this trip we will be setting up Rwanda’s first orchid propagation lab and training Kitabi students and staff before introducing orchids to Rwandan school children. For effective training we need good […]

Another early Saturday morning takes us to the Cheltenham and Gloucester Orchid Show. Re packing the van with more sale plants and changing some of our show plants, we were off to set up another display and sales table with the help of a bacon roll! All our efforts paid off as we one The […]

What a stunning picture this is of the greenhouse and especially the rainbow in the background. What makes it even better is the dark sky behind and how well it curves over the top of the greenhouse.

Up bright and early this morning, we had to restock our sale plants and get the plants into the van. With help from Rosie’s dad, we were able to carry our two magnificent specimens of Coelogyne cristata and Coelogyne stricta. Once we arrived and unpacked, Rosie and Emily were in charge of our display as […]

After the students had done Orchid in a Box, learning about the structure of an orchid and had a go at micro-propping in the lab, we took them to the greenhouses to see if they could now spot and identify an orchid. We then got them to take a picture of them and print the […]