As you can see from the photos above Oncidium unguiculatum produces very long branched spikes(usually about 2.5m long) with large flowers spread quite sparsely. The delicious sulfur yellow lip is really striking even when it is high above you in the roof of the greenhouse.The species is endemic to Mexico and is found from 1600 […]

This time of year can be challenging for tropical orchids with short dull days – we haven’t seen sun for a while in Somerset – and so it is a great time to make sure that your greenhouse is clean inside and out. The photos above show part my home cool house with the walls […]

For our 1800th orchid of the day we have Odontoglossum crocidipterum. Like the two Stelis species of the last two days Odontoglossum crocidipterum is a cool growing orchid, and it is native to wet montane forests above 2200m from Venezuela to Peru where it grows as an epiphyte in evergreen trees. The short sprays produce […]

We have another small flowered stelis species today. Today we have Stelis aprica – a smaller growing species than yesterday’s Stelis cucullata and with smaller flowers. Other differences include the flower spikes being shorter and more arching in Stelis aprica and the leaves are thinner rather shorter. Stelis aprica is native to the coastal cloud […]

Christmas may be past but this small flowered orchid still looks as if it has been decorated with tinsel. This medium sized stelis species is one of our most floriferous and as you can see flowers from all leaves both young and old with spikes of around 50 flowers each with pale yellow sepals and […]