We will start the week with one of our favourite monster orchids. Myrmecophylla tibicinis reminds us of our school expeditions to Guatemala and Belize and we were delighted this year that our largest plant was filmed by the BBC for Green Planet. The plant above is a smaller clone but still a big orchid with […]

We happily describe Maxillaria preastans as our moist reliable maxillaria. Every summer the long lasting flowers add interest to greenhouse as well as being a regular species at previous summer shows such as Hampton Court Flower Show, Malvern International Orchid Show and the Bristol University Bee and Pollination event. What ever the show, people are […]

This is normally a time of year when we would be doing lots of school trips to see native British Orchids such as those described so well by Jacob in his posts on Orchid Hunting in Kent. Unfortunately trips are still rather limited by Covid restrictions and so we are delighted to see that common […]

Another of our summer orchid highlights is this wonderful Brazilian species. Brassavola tuberculata always flowers for the Malvern International Orchid Show that we have really missed this month. In 2018 it won Best Trade Sopecies at the show, an RHS Cultural award, and won RHS Orchid of the Year 2018. This terete leaved relative of […]

Six Students (Rainforest DRAGeN Project) at Mendip Studio School are in the finals of the Amazon Longitude Explorer Prize. Watch their video here and vote for their project winning the ‘peoples vote’ here Winning the people’s vote will give the team the cash they need to set the project in motion. (you will need to […]