The about page has now been refurbished and is now fully functional.  It now has information about the temperature of our greenhouses and links to out project pages.  Take a look to find out all about us.

keep watching the seedling portfolio page, we are updating it. Hopefuly it should be done for the london show.

The section of the greenhouses we call Temperate/sub tropical has turned flat! By which I mean that there is very little plant action above the compost. We keep a minimum of just 4 degrees celcius in this part of the greenhouse so most of the plants lose their leaves in the winter and come back in the […]

Year 10 students at Writhlington have the challenge of sowing orchid seed in aseptic conditions. In this part of the OCR nationals course students must demonstrate the ability to work safely and maintain aseptic conditions for the orchid seed they sow on a nutrient agar. This year the seed is Stanhopea tigrina, a fantastic species […]

I apologise that you can’t see this, but our large Coelogyne cristata is coming in to flower with two white and orange flowers. We have moved it up to temperate/sub tropical so that it takes as long as possible to flower and has as many flowers for the London show.