Vote here for your favourite orchid from all the winners of Orchid of the Week in January – Vote closes on Friday

Bulbophyllum picturatum is a small sized bulbophylum native to Thailand and Myanmar. This plant naturally grows in warm conditions in lowland forest and we grow it in our section Warm Asia. This relates to conditions of between 15 and 18 degrees Celsius as the winter minimum and the vents open at 26 degrees Celcius. We water it […]

This weeks winner by a large margin in Cymbidium hookerianum – our gorgeous species from Sikkim and the surrounding Himalayas. Tomorrow we will be cross pollinating between our two clones of Cymbidium hookerianum so expect seedlings in flask available in early 2020 and flowers by 2024 – we can’t wait. Both clones are shown here […]

This fantastic Paphiopedilum comes from a wide range across across South East Asia; Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and China. It is reported as growing as a terrestrial in deep shade under evergreen forests. Most Paphiopedilums are pollinated by wasps or hover flies and it has been suggested that they are attracted by fake aphids on […]

This is one of our favourite miniature orchids. The species comes from Papua New Guinea where it grows in shady forest up to 2500m. Mediocalcar decoratum’s small bell shaped flowers in orange and yellow suggest that the likely pollinator is Sun Birds. Sun Bird’s are Africa and Asia’s version of South America’s Humming Birds and […]