The first of our Coelogyne flaccida plants has opened its flowers this week. We have seen this attractive and fragrant Coelogyne on our travels to Sikkim where we found it at around 1200m to 1500m altitude, growing both as an epiphyte in trees and as a lithophyte on steep rocky roadside slopes. Coelogyne flaccida […]
We have a tiny miniature for you today with leaves 2cm long and flowers about 2mm across. Stelis microchila is one of the smallest of our Stelis species and is native to shaded damp forests from Central America down to Ecuador. Found from 900-1500m the habitat is not as cool as that of other Stelis […]
We have been enjoying the flowers of Laelia anceps in the greenhouse since the end of November and the latest clone to open its flowers is this unusual semi-alba form. Semi-alba flowers have none of the usual pink/purple pigment apart from on the lip. It bis really interesting to compare this flower with a more […]
Many of our orchids are old friends and ee have had this lovely small growing species in our collection for 28 years. Each year it delivers these lovely clusters of pink flowers that last from January through to early April. We feel that this is an orchid no one should be without. It is […]
The students of orchid project had a lovely time yesterday lunchtime, sticking their noses into the very fragrant flowers of Prosthechea aemula. Prosthechea aemula is a vigorous grower with 15cm pseudobulbs and 25cm long dark green leaves produced each summer and long lasting sprays of up to nine flowers from each pseudobulb in early spring. […]