New orchid and repotting

My Lovely new orchid, picked up in the garden centre today for a mere 3 quid. The bark was mushy and waterlogged and the plant had no more buds on it and I assume for these reasons it was going cheap. I snapped it up and repotted in some some large bark chips a couple of hours after I got it home.






At the same time I also repotted my fabulous purple orchid. I was loath to repot it while the plant is still covered in flowers. BUT it came potted in moss which is now green and attracting flies plus the orchid is doing so well it is bursting out of the pot. So I risked it and potted this in a larger pot in bark.

Sculptures in the Close

Currently on at Jesus College Cambridge Uni is the eleventh in the series of biennial exhibitions of contemporary British sculpture held since 1988. I visited 'Sculpture In The Close' this weekend in the blazing heat and here are a few photos.

Anthony Caro ‘Babylon’ (1997/2001)

Anthony Caro minimalist works from the 1970s.

Antony Gormley'snew installation, ‘Sculpture in the Close’, using cast iron and fibre glass figures to be located in the passages and courts and on the roofs of the College. Both Caro and Gormley were educated at Cambridge University.

Here are just a few sculptures from around the college grounds that form part of the permanent collection.

House plants in June 09

A bowlful of rosettes of some Haworthi type plant seems to be starting a flower spike.




Sedum is overflowing the pot but not enough sun to turn the leaves red.


Another baby being put forth.


Vanda orchid basically dormant in the conditions of the flat.


Lithops which doubled in the spring without flowering


Purple orchid has extended the flower spike which now trails along the floor with flowers.






My lovely white orchid now has approx 15 buds.




The state of my hibiscus, it flowers regularly but has dropped nearly all of it's leaves.

Glandford Shell Museum

This little museum was one of my favourite places in Norfolk. It was purpose built by Sir Alfred Jodrell, Baronet, of Bayfield Hall around the time he inherited the entire village of Glandford in 1915. Sir Alfred and his sisters arranged all the shells in their cases and these shells come from all corners of the earth. The collection is constantly being added to. There are shells of every colour, shells as delicately coloured as butterfly wings: shells exquisitely carved.















Next to the museum is the Glandford village church which was really beautiful



This carving adornes the pew that Sir Alfred Jodrell sat on with his dog. A tribute to the man that restored the church and the village.

My visit to Salthouse, North Norfolk

Its been so long since I last posted. Uni has finished now and im awaiting my result, ive put up and then taken down my final exhibition (photos of which ill post soon) and now Im job hunting in the real world and unsure of where im going to live for how long with who..etc. A couple of weekends ago we escaped to the coast and stayed in a little cottage on the North Norfolk coast. The weather was very mixed but I loved the isolation and lack of a tv.

Salthouse beach


Looking back to the cottage


Tradition local flint wall


Beautiful yellow roses




A mini postbox


Giant gunnera I seem to find some everywhere I go


Norfolk dog stop


Stinging nettles


Wildflowers








Mr Snail


Irises