From time to time our greenhouse floors become slippery.  This is caused by naturally occurring algae growing on them.  It is particularly bad after the summer when bright sunlight seems to stimulate the algae into growth.  The nutrients in our orchid feed not only feed our orchids but our algae too. In our greenhouse we […]

  The greenhouse is alive with Barbie pink this week.  If you like the smell of chocolate Oncidium ornithorhynchum is the orchid for you.   It is native to Central America and we grow it in Cool Americas. I think it makes a lovely house plant with it’s delicate pink flowers Cattleya bowringiana is still flowering […]

I have been away in Faversham for a few days, leaving Lillie and Isabelle, the youngest members of the Orchid Project, in charge of the greenhouse. This time of year the greenhouse needs to be watered every other day as the weather is not too hot but not so cold that heating  causes the plants […]

A big thank you to The Devon Orchid Society for inviting us to their Autumn Show.  We had a lovely time and had a really warm welcome from Sarah and Arthur at Burnham Nurseries.  It was really lovely to see all the other orchid  societies too and Lawrence Hobbs. Our Sobralia crocea was much admired […]

Here is one that has not been on Simon’s Orchid of the day, Masdevallia Lata.  It is not a Writhlington orchid but one from my own collection and originates from Costa Rica and Southwestern Panama. The name Masdevallia comes from Jose Masdevall who was an 18th century botanist and physician in the court of Charles […]