This stunning large flowered pleurothallis species is new to 365 days. The species is wet found in forests from Costa Rica to Ecuador where it grows in shade and is found over a wide range of elevation from warm forest at 350m to much cooler forest at 1750m. We find the species is very happy […]

Sometimes it seems like life is all rush, rush, rush. So what better way to relax, refresh and maintain a proper perspective than spend your lunch time watching a gongora flower open. I think we can all learn something from the students of Orchid Project.  

With Orchid Christmas approaching (do come and join us on December 12th 6-9pm) our Cool Americas section is once again turning pink as the Mexican Laelias come into bloom. The first to flower is Laelia gouliana. This is a strong growing species with large fat pseudobulbs and flower spikes up to 120cm long. Each flower […]

We have another of our mini-miniature trisetellas today. Trisitella cordeliae which is really small both in terms of its leaves – just 10mm long and short spikes with small (but relatively large) attractive hairy pink flowers. The flower spikes produce a succession of flowers over a long period. The species is endemic to Peruvian cloud […]

Here are some instructions for those who have purchased orchids in-vitro from us in Bristol.If you have been helped to work in our lab and re-plate your seedlings, they will need about five-six months of growing indoors, away from bright sun (maybe on a book shelf) before de-flasking. If you have seedlings from the sales […]