We have featured several miniature species recently and today we have another from our Cool Americas section. This species is the smallest Epidendrum we grow by some way The whole plant here is 3cm across and the tiny growths finish in two or three flowers about 8mm across which flower successively over quite a long period. […]

As regulars to 365 Days will know we have a number of interesting moth pollinated species from across the tropical world. Brassavola cuculata is one such species and seeing it in flower always takes me back to the lowland forests of Guatemala where I first saw it growing in the wild. This terete leaved species […]

Not all miniature orchids have subtle flowers like yesterday’s Barbosella and Dendrobium cuthbertsonii is a species with large vibrant flowers. This beautiful species is native to New Guinea where it grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte in mossy high mountain elfin forests. We find that the secret in cultivation is to replicate this habitat and […]

To continue our miniature theme from yesterday we have this very reliable Brazilian species full of flower It is definitely Barbosella time in the Greenhouse with lots of Barbosella australis in flower, and now this lovely miniature species coming into flower too. Barbosella dusenii is our orchid with the smallest leaves. The leaves are a […]

We have some very small flowered orchids and an extreme case is this tiny orange flowered species from South and Central America. Platystele stenostachya is a mini-miniature found all the way from Mexico in the north to Peru in the South. It has been reported from sea level up to 1700m and with such a […]