Orchids don’t need to have large flamboyant flowers to be a valued part of a collection and Pleurothallis stenosepala is a modest little orchid with the delightful attributes of being easy to grow, quick to propagate and blooming throughout the year. Pleurothallis stenosepala is native to wet forests all down the Andes from Venezuela to […]

This is one of our orchid species that is always in flower and as a result we don’t always notice it! In fact we haven’t featured the species on 365 days of orchids since 2017 – very unfair of us. Single large flowers are produces successively for more than a year from long flower spikes […]

We know that autumn is here when our Stenoglottis start to flower. We have two species, Stenoglottis fimbriata that starts to flower in September and Stenoglottis longifolia (below and still in bud) that flowers about a month later. In Stenoglottis fimbriata the basal rosette of leaves are spotted in purple, unlike Stenoglottis longifolia that has […]

We have a bench filled with small plants of this wonderful orchid thanks to dividing our prize winning (Cultural Commendation from the RHS) specimen below. Coelogyne ovalis is a cool growing Coelogyne from South East Asia and the Eastern Himalayas. We have seen plants growing on the Bolevan plateau in Southern Laos at around 1200m […]

Our first public event at the school since 2019 will be next Monday evening from 4pm-7pm. Do come and join us for an evening of orchids, talks, tours and have a go sessions in our wonderful greenhouses and propagation laboratory. The event cost £2 entry and everyone will receive a free orchid seedling in a […]