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 [...]
2 Comments - Radio Interview
November 19, 2009
This morning Simon Pugh-Jones and Zoe Barnes from the Durban team were interviewed on radio Somerset.
1 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 [...]
0 Comments - Teaching pupils at West Park School
November 6, 2009
We have had an amazing day again in Durban. It started with a trip to the West Park School in Malvern on the outskirts of the city. We started with a school assembley where Simon and Lauren talked to the school. We then had a tour of the impressive permaculture work that the school is [...]
0 Comments - Teaching about replating orchid seedlings
November 5, 2009
In the workshop Zoe B was teaching people how to replate seedlings. These are the plants that we brought all the way from England. By the end of the day the workshops had made more than a hundred jars of sown seed or replated seedlings, wow. All the jars will stay at the Botanic Garden [...]
0 Comments - Zoe P teaching orchid seed sowing
Wednesday was workshop day at the Durban Congress. We gave two long workshops on orchid growing from seed. It went amazingly well with groups of 16 and 17 people and they all loved it. Here Zoe P is working with two of the people and showing how to surface sterlise the seed. The people at [...]