Orchids on a Balcony

It has been a while since my last update. I'm still alive, as are most of the plants. A move of house - which we now own rather than re...

Back in October 2011, I received three small  Stanhopea  plants as part of an order from Plantae . They've been quietly growing away for...

Earlier this week, I had a "guest post" published on the travel/ocean science blog Moving Sushi , entitled " Darwin and the L...

At the end of November last year, Senior Management and I moved home, from flat-with-a-balcony to house-with-a-garden. This now somewhat neg...

Last week, fellow South African orchid blogger David Vaughan, who blogs at http://phalaenopsisspot.blogspot.com , offered to send me a flask...