There is nothing quite as summery as the golden fowers of this Barzilian orchid species. This orchid has real impact with hundreds of bright yellow flowers on long stems.Oncidium flexuosum gives clouds of yellow flowers from March right through until the late autumn. In a good year we get 12 months of flowers. This Brazillian […]

This large growing wonderful orchid is wonderfully perfumaed as well as dramatic with its white flowers and yellow spots.. Comparing this plant with the normal coloured form (below) that flowered with us in April you can see that all the pink pigment is missing although the pattern of spotting is very similar. This grand orchid is […]

The mesmerising blue flowers of Vanda coerulea are with us again. This dramatic species flowers several times throughout the year but is usually at is best in summer and autumn. Our plant is nearly 4m tall and has several spikes of flowers coming or out. We used to cope with the plant’s height by hanging […]

This wonderful miniature flowered species is in flower again today. Stelis benzingii is a medium sized members of the genus with 12cm leaves and long spikes with densely packed 6mm triangular flowers on what is definitely one of our more floriferous Stelis species. The species is endemic to Ecuador where it grows in warm lowland […]

Some orchids are equally attractive in their growth habit as in their flowers. This mass of roots and small white flowers is Agreacum erectum. The species has been in flower for months and now it is mature flowers on and off throughout the year. The 1cm flowers are evolved for moth pollination in common with […]