When it comes to number of flowers, nothing can touch our Bulbophyllum stenobulbon this week Bulbophyllum stenobulbon is found through South East Asia and as far west as Assam. It produces masses of quite small flowers from the base of new and old pseudobulbs and so gives a lovely display. It also tends to flower […]

Native orchid time is back with us – especially if you live in Dorset. Today was our annual pilgrimage to the Purbecks to see the UK’s largest population of our earliest flowering orchid – Ophrys sphagodes or the Early Spider Orchid. The orchids are easy to find amongst short turf from especially around Dancing Ledge […]

This wonderful orchid has been in flower since December and with 12 flower spikes will still be in flower at the end of May.   We have had this species at Writhlington since 1996 and it is always a special time when plants come into flower. Our largest plant has ten spikes but for the […]

We have some really spectacular orchids out in flower but few can match the splendour of this Central American species. Epidendrum parkinsonianum is a species we are particularly fond of, since finding it in the volcanic mountains of Costa Rica, and over the past 20 years, growing this wonderful specimen in our Cool Americas Section. […]

We have a wonderful species for you today. This miniature member of the Cattleya family is a mass of flowers every April and a reminder of the remarkable orchids of the Mata Atlantica, Brazil. Leptotes bicolor is one of the species we found during our expeditions to Brazil in 2000 and 2006. We observed it […]