This lovely miniature dendrobium is new to 365 days and is a species native to Thailand and Peninsular Malaya where it grows in warm lowland forest at around 100m altitude. In this habitat it will experience year round warm temperatures and little seasonal variation. It is not strongly deciduous though only seems to flower from […]

We had a fantastic morning in the greenhouse and propagation lab with the enthusiastic pupils of our local primary school (Peasedown Primary). I am very proud of the Orchid team from years 7-10 and 12 (year 11s have exams this week) who did a great teaching job with orchid activities including finding flowering species in […]

Miniature week continues with this gorgeous little Asian species. Trichoglottis pusilla is native to Java where it grows in rain forest from 1000 to 2000m altitude. It is a true miniature with a leaf span of 5cm but large dramatic flowers which hang down from the plant. We grow this species mounted in Warm Asia where it […]

This week is miniatures week and one of our favourites is this masdevallia, endemic to cloud forests of Bolivia and one of the smallest masdevallias we grow. The plant shown is in a 3cm pot with 4cm leaves and 5cm flower spikes. The flowers are large for the plant and long lasting. We grow the species […]

We have reached our 700th orchid of the day! – it started as a challenge for a year and seems to have developed into something of an obsesssion – what would a day be without its orchid. For anyone who is worried, we can assure you that 365 days of orchids will not be affected […]