What is white with yellow spots and has a lovely perfume – it’s Vanda tricolor var. suarvis ‘alba’ of course. This unusual variety of this lovely species is a relatively new addition to our collection and hasn’t featured here until now. Comparing this plant with the normal coloured form (below) that flowered with us in […]

This Brazilian orchid has real impact with hundreds of bright yellow flowers on long stems.Oncidium flexuosum gives clouds of yellow flowers from March right through until the late autumn. In a good year we get 12 months of flowers. This Brazillian species has recently been transferred from Oncidium to Gomesa along with many of the […]

Back to small growing orchids today. Vanda testacea is one of our smaller growing Vanda species, not much bigger than your hand but with relatively long upright spikes of pretty 2cm flowers. Vanda testacea is native to The Himalayas from Nepal to Mayanmar and also from Sri Lanka where it is found from 700 to […]

Todays monster orchid is actually a small growing pleurothallis species, however this plant is now 50cm across and carrying hundreds of lemon yellow flowers. The only plants we have seen bigger than our specimen were on the forested slopes of the Poaz volcano in Costa Rica by lovely Pleurothallis species. Pleurothallis ruscifolia is a medium […]

To follow yesterday’s Myrmecophylla tibicins we have another monster orchid today with flower spikes over 1m long with around 150 flowers each 4cm across and it makes a terrific sight. Grammatophyllum scriptum is a large growing species with a wide natural range including Borneo, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, The Philippines, Sulawesi, the Solomon […]