We have featured lots of weird and wonderful orchids this month but today we have a rather more subtle species. This rather unusual orchid is native to Costa Rica and Panama. It has thin leaves on top of long thin pseudobulbs that climb up the mount on a long rhizome. The single flowers come from […]

It has been a busy week in the propagation lab with A level students working on their germination tests. Each student has been investigating a different orchid species and identifying optimum germination conditions in vitro. In the photo Gracie is using one of the WIFI microscope cameras to record the germination of her seedlings. All […]

  This lovely free flowering orchid is native to warm forests in Southern China and Vietnam where it experience a wet summer monsoon and a cooler dryer winter when it flowers. We find it enjoys warm temperatures in Warm Asia and although we grow it in a basket to show off the lovely pendulous flowers we […]

   This must be one of our weirdest orchid species. Bulbophyllum is a small growing Bulbophyllum with a remarkable flower spike consisting of many small black flowers which each produce three thin dangly tassels which are attached to the end of each sepal and sway too and fro in the slightest breeze. This species is […]

This delicate and graceful species is a national flower of Myanmar and has features in traditional songs and literature as well as in buddhist traditions. We first came across the species when asked to grow it from seed by a local Buddhist centre where they grew the species in the traditional way on coir matting. […]