As some of you might know we are going to be at the RHS  international orchid show. The last couple of days have been busy some of us didn’t go to two lessons. After having a plan to have left by 4:30 they didn’t leave until 6:30

When we returned to the greenhouses after a welcome break we found an unwelcome surprise, the greenhouse was rather cold. There was only one thing to do, have a team warm up! It was quite a site to see, a greenhouse full of jogging botanists, I don’t know about the plants but we were certainly warm.

Alarms are never good, but are particularly bad when they are telling you that the temperature in a section of the greenhouse has dropped 5º below where the heating is supposed to kick in! That’s exactly the situation we came in to this morning. The boiler had broken at some point last night, leaving our […]