It has been trophy time at the BOC and the orchid project has won both top prizes – Best Display and Best Orchid in Show.
Trophy time.
Well done again to Chloe, Jacob and Jess here, as well as all the team back at school for growing such great plants.
We have recently moved to brown paper bags for our orchid sales (modelled here by one of today’s customers) – well received and ideal for safe packing of plants.
We have had a very successful morning at the British Orchid Congress with a number of awards for plants. Our rosette winners are shown below:
Scaphosepalum verrucosum – Best Pleuro
Dendrochilum cobbianum – best Coelogyne
Aerangis biloba – best Angraecoid
Oberonia miniata-Best any other
Coelogyne ovalis- 2nd Coelognye
Oncidium cristatum- Best Oncidinae
We arrived at Norwich yesterday and spent the first four hours putting up our display – which looks amazing. Well done to Jess, Chloe, Jacob and Annie.
Preview evening last night gave us a chance to look around at all the orchid diversity here and meet up with our orchid friends from across the Uk and Europe. Today we are up early for Judgind – Jacob’s first time as a qualified judge and Jess’ first time as a trainee.
After a hard but enjoyable day’s work the new Bristol Aquarium Cloud Forest Orchid Display is all planted and ready for us to add information names and interactive activities.
The display includes fifty five orchid species and these are grouped by pollinator – Bee, butterfly, moth, humming bird, ant, fly and midge/gnat. If you want to see which species are in each section you will have to visit the Aquarium.
With two large permanent orchid displays the Bristol Aquarium is quite an orchid attraction – the bonus is you also get to see some fish!
Well done again to the team; Laura, Hannah, Zea, Chloe, Jacob, Georgia and Simon from Writhlington/Mendip, and Matt and Wendy from the Aquarium.
