Orchid seeds are incredible. One orchid seed pod can have up to 2.6 million seeds in. This is a brilliant survival technique for the orchid, but such an advantage comes at a price. Each orchid seed must be invaded by a mycorrhizal fungas. The orchid seed then uses the fungas to give it the energy [...]
0 Comments - Happy New Year to all our partners around the World
January 2, 2010
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, [...]
0 Comments - Orchid evening approaches!
December 10, 2009
That’s right people! We’re now reaching the final stages of the ‘Orchid celebration evening’ preparations here at the Writhlington Orchid Project. This includes tidying plants for the display stand and putting together our presentations for you on our past expeditions.
This will include a presentation from the Durban team, who’s blog you have been following on [...]
0 Comments - Orchid Celebration Evening
November 27, 2009
Well, this day was penciled into our diaries a while ago and it’s finally dawned on us that it’s now quickly approaching!
Our Orchid Celebration Evening is a great oppertunity for you to meet and get information from our growers of all ages. We will have talks throughout the evening about recent expeditions, along with plant [...]
2 Comments - Radio Interview
November 19, 2009
This morning Simon Pugh-Jones and Zoe Barnes from the Durban team were interviewed on radio Somerset.
0 Comments - Back Home
November 11, 2009
Well the tropical weather of Durban is a distant memory and the great new friends we made are 6000 miles away. We will never forget the amazing time we had but it’s back to work in the Writhlington Labs. Here we are at Tuesday’s Lab Club, sowing seed of Epidendrum radicans (the pod split in the school greenhouse [...]