We are at Malvern today and must finish our display for judging at 5pm. Centre stage is our massive Aerides odorata shown here in the greenhouse where it somehow didn’t look as big as it did when we tried to get it into the van. The species is native to the Himalayas where we […]
We are excited to be taking some really big orchid specimens to the Malvern International Orchid Show at the Three Counties Show this evening (look out for news updates). One of our specimens in this lovely warm growing species from the Himalayas. We currently have a large number of dramatic orchid species related to […]
This wonderful species is the national flower of Brazil (Good choice) . It is found as an epiphyte in open forest up to around 1000m where it experiences a warm wet summer and a cool dryer winter. With us it reliably flowers in June and the greenhouse where we keep the large plants hanging high […]
Regular visitors to 365 days of orchids will know that we feature an orchid species in flower every day, but we do have a few primary hybrids as a bonus. This is a small growing miniature orchid from a cross we made about eight years ago between the two small growing Cymbidium species Cymbidium tigrinum […]
This is a very free flowering and rewarding Bulbophyllum found from the Himalayas across to Vietnam in evergreen monsoon forest from 800 to 2000m. We know this habitat well from our travels in Sikkim with its warm wet summers. The winters are dryer but plants would not experience long periods with no moisture and so […]