After studying in Canterbury for the past three years, it has been a point of personal embarrassment to me that up until this spring I’d never before seen a wild orchid in Kent. For those new to the blog, I studied at Writhlington between 2010 and 2017 and was part of the orchid project for […]

We have two clones of this gorgious small growing bulbophyllum and the two coloured form is out today.   Bulbophyllum species add real interest and diversity to any collection and this small growing species from South East Asia with masses of deep red flowers with yellow tips to the sepals on a miniature plant is […]

Trichoglottis rosea is the largest of our Trichoglottis species with alternate leaves along a thick stem, it has long lasting flowers, unusual in that they are produced in profusion and much smaller than other trichoglottis. The flowers are also really fragrant. Trichoglottis rosea is native to the Phillipines and Taiwan where it grows in lowland […]

This unusual orchid species is found in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Peru, as an epiphyte at around 800m making it a little warmer growing that our Cool Americas section, and a little cooler growing than our Warm Americas section so we have tried plants in both sections, and in our experience plants prefer to be […]

Aerides is a genus of beautiful orchids from Asia, and this species is our Aerides with the largest flowers. Aerides crassifolia is found in open warm forest in South East Asia and we have seen the species growing in Loas at around 900m on large trees in good light. The flowers are large and spread […]