This Brazilian Cattleya is the sister species to Cattleya purpurata featured last week (below) Cattleya tenebrosa grows as an epiphyte in open lowland forest up to around 1000m and so enjoys warm conditions and good light. We hang our plant in the roof of the Warm Americas Zone where it gets lots of sun and […]

A new orchid for 365 days is this species native to warm forests from Sikkim to Thailand. It has similar growth to Micropera rostrata but smaller flowers in pink and yellow. We grow both species in our warm asia section and find that they do well in baskets or mounted to suit the semi-pendulous growth […]

  Question – Why should you visit the Writhlington Greenhouses in the middle of the night?   Answer – To enjoy the intoxicating scent of the wonderful orchid.  (actually, there is plenty of scent in the day time too) Angraecum magdalenae from the mountains of central Madagascar is one of our most rewarding orchid species. The […]

We are now well into our summer flowering species and this is a reliable small growing member of the vanda family. There seems to be little known about this species which is native to the Philippines and  in common with most cleisostomas has flowers that open successively along the flower spike. The long lasting flowers […]

The weather is warm and flowers are filling the meadows, hedges and wild places – so do go out and enjoy them. The common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii) here is on Cley Hill in Wiltshire. The orchids on the chalk are rather reduced this year as a result of the very dry spring and summer […]