This brightly coloured Brazilian species is found as an epiphyte from 500 to 900m. Exploring similar forests we have found them to have wet summers and dryer but not completely dry winters. We find plants enjoy growing in shade in Cool Americas both mounted and in baskets but kept well watered in the summer and […]

Have a look at our new tab – an alphabetical list of all the species we have featured in 365 days of orchids. This will give you a quick link to the species we grow at the Orchid Project, and will act as a catalogue at shows and events so that you can check information […]

Radstock is more like Narnia this morning and there is no sign to there ever being an end to winter! With me cut off from the world in Frome it was up to Jess and Gareth to set out and brave the arctic conditions to check and water the orchids. When Jess arrived the snow […]

This dramatic Dendrobium is native to the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu (A real South Sea Islander). It is found in wet forests from 450 to 3000m altitude which indicates it is cool growing although we grow our plant very successfully in Warm Asia. It may be that our plant is propagated from plants found […]

 Chloe at the Snowy greenhouses. Storm Emma has arrived with the predicted snow and Writhlington and Mendip schools are closed for a Snow Day – the first since 2013. As usual the only activity has been in the greenhouse (Orchids don’t have snow days) where Chloe has been working hard to prepare sales plants for […]