If anyone missed this evenings Countryfile catch it now here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09170hp/countryfile-roots-and-shoots the BBC camera team made the greenhouse look very jungly and featured lots of wonderful students sharing their passion for orchids. If you want visit the school greenhouses and see the real Orchid Project we are hosting the British Orchid Show (British Orchid Council Congress) on […]

This Masdevallia species is native to Peru and Bolivia where it is found as an epiphyte in woodland around 2500m altitude. The flowers are covered in fine hairs which make them well worth a closer look. The plant is a little unruly as successive leaves are produced a few cm from the previous one giving it […]

This compact Cattleya species is found near the coast through southern Brazil and Argentina. It naturally grows in both shady and brightly lit conditions as a medium sized epiphyte or lithophyte. It produces numerous large, long lasting flowers on a short inflorescence during the summer. We grow our plants with our other Cattleyas in our […]

This species is native to the Philippines and Borneo where it grows as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte. During the summer it produces pendulous flower spikes which bear a few heavily spotted flowers. The flowers carry a slight fragrance which is most present during the warmest part of the day. Phalaenosis mariae is very […]

This phalaenopsis species comes from Borneo where it grows it hot lowland forest in swamps or near rivers and the plant grows low in trees where it is often in deep shade. The species grows very attractive large undulating leaves and flower spikes that produce large fragrant flowers successively over a long period. The flowers have […]