Later today (4pm-7pm) we are delighted to be opening our greenhouses to the public for the first time in 22 months and just in time we have a trio of Dracula species – Darcula bella, Dracula sodiroi and today’s species Dracula amaliae. Aways one of our most popular orchids when students run greenhouse tours on […]

This species is one of our brightly coloured masdevallias – irresistable to its hummingbird pollinators and humans alike. Masdevallia barlaeana is found from Colombia to Peru at high altitude (2200-3100m) as a lithophyte on rocky slopes – a similar habitat as that of Masdevallia veitchiana. The species is smaller growing and smaller flowered than its close […]

This wonderful small growing orchid with gigantic 15cm flowers is the clown orchid. We can’t wait to share it with those of you coming to our open evening on Monday (4-7pm). Rossioglossum grande is a cool growing species from Mexico, Guatemala and Belize where it is found in deciduous forest from 1400 to 2700m where […]

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 […]