This is a medium sized plant with stiff leaves and a bunch of flowers produced at the base of each leaf in Autumn. The plants are very floriferous as they flower from old and new leaves together. Octomeria crassifolia is found in Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay in damp montane forest and we keep plants well […]

Can you help to spread the word about the British Orchid Show at Writhlington. We have just released this poster advertizing the two public days of the show – Saturday 3rd November and Sunday 4th November from 10am-4pm.    Of course you can still register for the whole weekend, preview evening, the Science Symposium or […]

We have two Stenoglottis species that are very similar. The first to flower is Stenoglottis fimbriata which has long spikes of pretty pink flowers which have darker spots and a lip that ends in three long filaments. The leaves form a basal rosette and are heavily spotted in purple as is the the flower stem […]

One of our most dramatic larger growing Pleurothallis species is this red flowered orchid from Central America. It is a robust species that grows attractive glossy leaves before producing long dramatic spikes of deep red flowers in the autumn. It will produce fantastic specimen plants as well as flowering from small plants. We have two […]

This magnum is ‘magnum’ in many ways as it is our largest growing and largest flowered dendrochilum species. Ed shown here for scale has just counted the flowers at 1920 on 48 spikes, and they are all really fragrant. The smell has been described by visitors as ‘lovely’, ‘horrible’ and ‘weird’ reflecting its rather odd […]