It’s a Gold medal for the orchid project at RHS London 2017 – our 10th RHS Gold – full points were scored and judges were particularly impressed by the quality of the plants, the number of mature specimen orchids, the design of the display and the creative laser cut bamboo labels. We also won best […]

Here is a first photo of our display and team. Tallis and Charlotte worked amazingly yesterday – the photo is at a busy preview evening at about 8pm and they look amazingly bright considering we started at school at 4am! This morning we are having a leisurely breakfast while judging takes place in the Hall. […]

Well done to Tallis, Charlotte, Jacob and Wendy for putting together a great display – photos tomorrow when we find reliable internet.

We are spending today setting up our display and sales table at the RHS London International Orchid Show and so it is a time we hope to have lots of our favourite spring orchids looking their best. One of these is Masdevallia decumana and Annie’s mounted plant has come up  trumps with a mass of […]

Platystele misasiana is another of our favourite miniatures. The species that comes from cloud forests in Colombia at around 2000m produces bushy little plants with 2cm leaves and masses of uptight flower spikes covered in tiny star like flowers. We grow the plant successfully both in baskets and pots in Cool Americas and will have […]