We are delighted to be working with Steve Threlkeld who manages the Dunsdon Nature reserve in West Devon to help reverse the decline in one of Britains iconic orchid species. The project forms part of the Back from the Brink project to save Britain’s most threatened species from extinction and students will be raising plants […]

  This species is found in the wild in Mexico, Guatemala and El  Salvador in dryish oak forest from 1200m to about 2000m. We grow it with a minimum temperature of 15 degrees C mounted on a cork slab in our Warm Americas section. The natural habitat indicates it could be grown cool (down to about […]

   This floriferous masdevallis is native to Central America and we have seen it in Costa Rica growing on the trunks and lower branches of trees in dense forest at 1200m on the slopes of the Poas Volcano (see photo below) The photo shows the mossy trunk that was covered in Masdevallias. The temperatures here […]

   We gave a brief view of this species earlier in the week as it was one of our awarded plants at the Malvern Show. Here is some proper detail on one of our favourite old plants. This terete leaved relative of Cattleya is native to Brazil where it grows in warm open forest in […]

Yet another vandaceous species today, and one we have seen on semi-deciduous trees in the warm valleys of Sikkim up to around 1000m. The species actually has a very wide distribution from India through South East Asia to Malaysia and the Philippines. In its Sikkim habitat it experiences warm dry winters and hot wet summers […]