A highlight this weekend is the flowering of this delicate little orchid that has been one of my favourites since I first came across its waxy fragrant flowers in the 1970s. This exquisite and sweetly scented species species from Mexico and Central America is a cool growing species found in high altitude cool mossy […]
Waking up this morning I was treated to this wonderful sight in my bathroom. This Coelogyne cristata has spent the last four years living on this small East facing window and is clearly a very happy plant. I can now look forward to over a month of these wonderful white flowers. When out of flower […]
Laelia superbiens is a real monster with mature plants several feet across and large flower heads on 2 and 3m long flower spikes. We have split our large specimen plants and this is the first flowering of the divisions. The very large flowers are 12cm across and bourn in clusters of up to 20 flowers […]
Some of our orchids are very regular in their flowering and this little dendrobium is a reliable February flowerer. We are entering the spring peak for the flowering of many of our cooler growing species and it could be possible not to fully appreciate this little gem. Dendrobium malvicolor is a small growing species […]
This unusual species is new to 365 Days of orchids. We have had the plant in our collection since the late 1990’s but almost lost it due to under watering about ten years ago and it has taken those ten years to return to this impressive state. Growths are 2-3ft high and all of the […]