Dendrobiums jenkinsii
Our dendrobium is blooming. Native to southern China, the eastern Himalayas, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Bhutan. Isn’t it sweet.
Lab Week
It’s great to see Zoe’s in a lab in Peru. Especially as we are starting our lab week here. This means we are seed sowing, re-plating and media making. Soon the world will be full of new baby Orchids.
I am traveling South America at the moment and, along with other places, Peru. While out here I couldn’t miss the opportunity to visit Peru floras lab and nursery. I really enjoyed seeing there methods and techniques. Thank you Manolo and his team for showing me around.
Bristol Show 2016
Well done to Tallis, Martha, Chloe and Jess for a brilliant display at the Bristol and West of England Show. The show is a great event with lots of lovely orchids on the Society displays.
The girls gave won several awards including Best Coelogyne, Best Bulbophyllun and our Oerstedella centrapetala won best Cattleya, best Species and Grand Champion plant.
Oerstedella centrapetala a plant we have had at Writhlington since 1996.
Rwandan wildlife: African pied wagtail
African pied wagtail, Motacilla aguimp (picture from Nik Borrow, The Internet Bird Collection)
Pied wagtail, Motacilla alba (picture from Marco Valentini, The Internet Bird Collection)
African pied wagtails visited us often at KCCEM. Here we have pictures of an African pied wagtail and its relative here in the UK, the pied wagtail. Can you spot the differences?