I am really enjoying a feast of Masdevallias this week. The first of our Masdevallia coccinea clones has just opened (above) and we are still enjoying species we featured earlier in the year such as Masdevallia lucernula and Masdevallia decumana (below) Most of our Masdevallias bloom over an extended period and we will have Masdevallia […]

This is a time of year when I would normally be travelling the country to find our wonderful native spring flowers in their natural habitat. With current restrictions I am very pleased that we opted to grow mainly native British flowers in our garden. Keeping your garden, even a small one, green and healthy year […]

We have a real giant of an orchid today. Sobralia leucoxanthus with it 3m long stems ending in these giant creamy flowers is one of our orchids that has always been just too big to take out of the greenhouse. Usually we publicise the plant’s flowering so that school staff can come and enjoy its exuberance, […]

Our coolest section has a minimum temperature of 6C and the vents are open most of the year.This is where we grow our best cymbidiums along with cool coelogynes, dendrobiums and our native British orchids. Having a really cool section allows us to extend the flowering season of spring orchids, especially for the London Show […]

Today we have one of the amazing dendrobium species currently flowering in our Warm Asia section. The golden flowers of the species always transport me to the remarkable forsts of the Bolaven Plateau in Southern Laos. Dendrobium chrysotoxum is native to seasonally dry forest monsoon forests and we found it in several locations at around […]