On January 1st we set ourselves the rather optimistic challenge of blogging a different orchid species in flower on every day of the year. We are now 325 days along our journey and looking around the greenhouse we are starting to believe that 365 species over 365 days is just about possible. We have started to run up against the issue of species flowering now that we blogged in January (the day 1 species, Cattleya percivaliana will be opening its buds later this week) but, fingers crossed, we might just manage 40 new species flowering before the end of the year. Wish us luck and do come and visit us for Orchid Christmas on December 13th (6pm-9pm) to join in the excitement.