What happens when you cross a project relating to the Himalayas, a team of enthusiastic people, a green cloth and a lot of little bits of paper? I thought not! You may or may not know that when filming in front of a green screen (or cloth in our case) you can make yourself appear […]
One of the most popular tasks at Writhlington is pollinating plants to produce seed to use in the orchid laboratory. We produce most of our seed this way which means that we can be absolutely sure that seedlings are the correct species and keep photographs of the parent plants. The job of pollination goes the […]
Yesterday was a rather exciting day at Writhlington – an inset day! We are still amazed at the amount of work you can get done in the labs without those annoying lessons getting in the way! This inset was, however, to be unlike any preceding it. We turned the classroom into a workshop and set […]
At Writhlington school we always feel that spring has arrived when our plants of Coelogyne cristata start to flower. Matt isn’t the tallest member of greenhouse club but he still shows the scale of this magnificent plant. Coelogyne cristata featured as one of our favourite orchids in an earlier blog and I am sure you […]
As many of you will be aware, we’re moving to our brand new greenhouses very soon. March 2nd to be precise! We’re all very excited and, through all our excitement, are somehow managing to organise things in preparation. I say ‘we’… what I really mean is the greenhouse team. My Lab team, myself included, have […]