Orchid seed is the key to everything we do at the Writhlington Orchid Project. It is from orchid seed that we get the plants that we sell to make money for our trips. It is also these seeds that will grow up to make up our collection that is taken to shows. I mentioned seed […]
Aren’t bananas great! Slightly off topic I know, but a fact worth noting all the same! Who would have thought that one, such humble fruit would poses so many practical uses in the modern day world, and particularly to us orchid growers! For today’s post I have assembled the top three uses for bananas at […]
One of the fun things that we did at 3600m (11,800′) in the Himalayas was make snow angels! We thought that it would be particularly fun to try this now, seeing as we had loads of spare snow! As you can see, they’ve turned out quite well! Who said school is no fun!? Especially in […]
Yay! School is closed which means a day off, playing in the snow… or does it? Unlike students, plants don’t like having a ‘snow day’ and as a result – plant people have to be in looking after them! This, of course, doesn’t mean that there’s no playing in the snow. First we must check […]
New year is a time we think about all the lovely people we work with around the world. So Happy New Year to our friends in Durban both at the Botanic Garden and at West Park School. Happy New Year as well to the pupils and staff at the Erica Primary School in Cape Town, […]