This is a small multiflowered Masdevallia species found in cloud forests from 1000 to 3000m in Ecuador and Peru. As could be expected from its range it is a variable species but all have pretty little flowers and in our experience the species is straight forward in cultivation and multiplies relatively quickly. This variety […]

This Dracula species is native to cloud forests in Colombia at around 1800m altitude. As with most Draculas it is pollinated by fungus gnats and attracts them with a fake mushroom shaped lip. This also give the ‘Monkey Face’ look shared by a number of species. We grow the plant in Cool Americas but find […]

A very productive day at Orchid Project meeting up with our partners from The Eden Project, Bristol Aquarium and The Bristol University Botanic Gardens to plan future projects. Hettie for Eden came up to Bristol by train to visit both Wendy at the Bristol Aquarium and Penny at the Botanic garden giving a great opportunity […]

This wonderful dendrobium is native to Southern China and South East Asia where it grows as an epiphyte at around 1100-1700m in seasonally dry forest. It is semi deciduous and flowers from new and old pseudobulbs together in a fantastic display of its intricate flowers with long filamented edges to the lip and petals. The […]

Visitors new to our website will have noticed our feature – 365 days of orchids. At he start of 2017 we set ourselves the challenge of photographing and writing a post every day of the year with a different orchid species. With over 1000 orchid species in our collection we were sure it was possible […]