Vote here for your favourite orchid from this week’s species. The winner of orchid of the week for week 20 was Dendrobium aphyllum. Thanks again for all of those who voted.  

This seems to be a week of fragrant orchids and this one is one of our most scented species with a fragrance of sweet play-doh. In fact the scent is rather too much if we need to take the plant to show in a van so it is a good idea to open the windows. […]

This free flowering species is native to Mexico and Central America where it grows as an epiphyte of lithophyte in semi-deciduous forest. As its name suggests it has a sweet scent along with spicy overtones. It uses the scent to attract euglossine bees (perfume gathering bees) and in common with many plants adopting this strategy has […]

Another update on the Coelogyne seedlings sown on 27th April. Today Jess has re-plated the first jar of germinated seed into twenty fresh jars of agar to give them the space and nutrients they need for the next stage of their development. Actually, replating at under a month old is a record for us as […]

This is another remarkable Bulbophyllum species with large flowers that have intriguing fillaments of bright purple pink attached to the petals and sepals. The species is native to lowland forests in Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines and so is a warm growing species and at home in our Warm Asia section. We find that […]