As you probably have seen many of our plants are enjoying film star status at the Aardman Studios in Bristol for a wildlife film. Brassia verrucosa has just returned from the studios with its wonderful large flowers. Remarkably research suggests that the flowers are spider mimics and are pollinated by a spider hunting wasp that […]

Last month we featured our enormous Dendrochilum magnum plant and today we have the closely related Dendrochilum cobbianum with 68 flower spikes reaching perfection. This makes it the best year yet beating 2018 (below) when it had 60 flower spikes with a total  of over 2000 flowers.   This stunning orchid species is native to the […]

It is hard to know when to post this pretty species from tropical Africa as the flowers are produced successively over a very long period but they are probably at their best today. This is a small flowered African species and we have seen it growing in Nyungwe National Park Rwanda on our five expeditions […]

The species produces masses of unusual 1cm flowers that open successively on horizontal and pendulous spikes over many months so that mature plants are always in flower. The 15cm long, broad leaves are attractively tinged with red and show that the plant appreciates a shaded spot away from direct sunlight reflecting the natural habitat. The […]

This is an unusual miniature orchid with bright orange red, waxy flowers on short repeat flowering stems. Plants are really small with 3cm leaves and they make lovely specimen plants over time. Pleurothallis fulgens is native to Costa Rica and Panama where it grows as a twig epiphyte from 950-2400m and so enjoys cool damp […]