The first of two Brazilian cattleyas just come into flower is Cattleys bicolor with its strikingly coloured flowers, the vibrant pink lip contrasting with the chestnut brown of the other petals and sepals. The flower is unusual as the lip has no side lobes to wrap around the column as in most cattleyas (see Cattleya […]

The Bank Holiday weekend has seen several members of the Cattleya family burst into flower, so expect some dramatic species over the next few days. We have several plants of Epidendrum ciliare coming into flower with their spidery green and white flowers. This species is found right through Central America and down through Colombia, Ecuador […]

It seems that Autumn has arrived early this year with our first plant of Stenoglottis longifolia flowering in our cool section. This South African species has the delightful habit of flowering from small plants (like the one open today above) but groqwing into great specimens in a few years with very long spikes like the […]

Amongst our great diversity of flowering Pleurothallis species is this stunning species with grey green leaves and relatively large deep red, long lasting flowers. We frow the species mounted as the leaves hang vertically in a posture reminiscent of a vulture  – don’t you think. Pleurothallis lynniana is endemic to Ecuador and we find it […]

This interesting species is a terrestrial found from Venezuela to Peru that grows on open rocky slopes in cool montane forrest from 1500-2000m altitude. It produces long, thin, upright stems (ours are about 1m – 1.5m long) and these produce terminal flowers in little clumps (see photo below with Ruby). The weight of the flowers pull […]