These are blog posts that The Writhlington Orchid Project has made.
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Hi! Can we introduce ourselves? Probably not, we're standing by the computer arguing about what we can and can't say! Oh well! As you have probably guessed this is our first blog for the RHS. We exhibited with the Writhlington School Orchid Project at the Chelsea Flower show in 2009.
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Hello! Zoe and me are off to Durban for the BGCI congress in just 4 weeks.We have packed the display boards already, all measured and weighed. We are excited and raring to go. Wow just think a month tomorrow and we will nearly be in Durban. What an brilliant thought. Watch this blog and we will tell you all about it
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This is a jar of school seedlings of the amazing Central American orchid, Brassavola nodosa. It is one of about a hundred jars of seedlings we will be taking with us the BCGI Congress in Durban www.bgci.org. In our workshop we will use these seedlings to train the delegates how to propagate orchids
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If you want to find out more about the writhlington orchid project, check out the website - www.wsbeorchids.org.uk
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Hi, Zoe P here. Zoe B and I are off to Durban to present our micropropagation workshop in just four weeks and it seems like a good idea to introduce the rest of our team. There are two adults coming with us, our teacher Simon Pugh-Jones and Dr Lauren Gardiner. Lauren is a plant scientist from Kew Gardens. She had been working as a consultant with Writhlington School for a while and is really inspiring. Lauren is presenting a lecture at the BGCI Congress and hopefully Zoe and I will be helping her out a bit with that as well as doing our workshop. This photo shows the School expedition to the Himalayas last April with Lauren in the middle and Simon on the right
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Here's a view of our daily routine. In our greenhouse we water the orchids and spray the floors and pipes to keep it humid. We get the whole greenhouse team to help and it doesn't take long. Also we weed the plants whenever it is needed, pollinate to get seed and get plants ready for shows. Most of our repotting we do in the spring. The photo shows me (Zoe B) and Heather just before we got soaking wet! If you wan't to see videos of what we do have a look at our website www.wsbeorchids.org.uk
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Hello Zoe P here. I am really exciting about going to South Africa. We also grow some of our own South African orchids such as the Disa which I look after but unfortunately non of our Disas are in flower at the moment but another South African orchid the Stenoglottis Fimbriata is as Zoe is showing in the picture. For more pictures and information go to our website www.wsbeorchids.org.uk 
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To take orchid seedlings to South Africa we need to get an import certificate from the South African department of Agriulture, Forestry and Fisheries, and then a phytosanitary certificate to show that the plants are healthy.Our import permit has arrived today.
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We have been asked a lot about Zoe B's chat with Alan Titchmarsh at this year's Chelsea flower show. It was great fu. If you missed the video here is a link.video
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This is one of our real favourites. Coelogyne cristata comes from the Himalayas and we grow this plant cool with a minimum of 10 degrees C. The recent trip to Sikkim found this species growing at about 1500m in monsoon forest. It flowers for us in March and April.
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