Even after 1619 days of posting a flowering orchid from our collection we find orchids that are new to 365 days. It is a treat to introduce you to this glorious Coelogyne species with deep copper coloured flowers. Coelogyne odoardoi is another warm growing species native to the warm forests of Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah) […]

We have some real ‘best in show’ orchids out this week and one of them is this wonderful blue flowered Dendrobium species. Dendrobium victoria-regina is a cool growing epiphyte, native to the Philippines where it grows on moss covered trees in consistent moisture all year round and good air movement.  It is a free flowering […]

I have returned from a quick trip to Lundy Island and found this wonderful miniature member of the Vanda family (previously known as Acosentrum christonsonianum) in full flower. Vanda christonsoniana is native to Vietnam where it grows in seasonally dry forest from sea level to 700m altitude. We have explored similar habitat in Laos and […]

Maxillaria meleagris is a lovely little floriferous orchid species. The species is native to cool forests in Mexico and Guatemala from 1500-2400m but we find that it is equally at home in both our Cool Americas and our Warm Americas section. We keep plants watered all year and find they enjoy shade and are very […]

We have two Cleisocenton species and Cleisocentrom gokusingii is smaller growing and smaller flowered than Cleisocentrom merrillium (below) Both of these remarkable orchids are endemic to Mount Kinabalu, on Borneo, where they grows in wet evergreen forest between 1000 and 2000m. The species both have striking flowers greyish, blue flowers with a purple stripe at […]