These warm evenings are perfect for bringing out the best in fragrant orchids and it was worth visiting the greenhouse after dark yesterday to appreciate the heady scent of this miniature orchid with enormous flowers. The name elephantinum means gigantic angraecum but it is actually one of our smallest Angraecum species. This plant is flowering […]

Today is forecast to be really hot and, as we have found on our expeditions, many orchids from tropical mountains enjoy daytime temperatures in the mid 20s and not the Mid 30s we are expecting today. Don’t panic – plants are pretty good at cooling themselves by transpiration as long as they have plenty of […]

This is a grand species and one of a number of orchids that combine brown and pink in their flowers. The graceful branched spikes of long lasting flowers make Encyclia polardiana one of our favourite summer orchids. This is a strong growing species, endemic to Mexico, found in open forests between 1000m and 1400m altitude. […]

In contrast to yesterday’s tiny flowered Stelis benzingii, today we have one of our largest flowered orchid species – Cattleya mendelii. This magnificent Cattleya species is native to Colombia where it grows at around 1000m as a lithophyte on exposed rocks. We find it to be a straight forward species to grow in our Warm […]

We have had some lovely comments from those who saw our live talk about our large specimen orchids, so we have added some of our larger growing plants to the shop. Coleogyne pulverula (above) with its long pendulous flower spikes, Prosthechea baccalus with its very fragrant flowers (below) And the majestic Coelogyne holochila (below)