Today we have the first flowering of a seedling of one of our favourite species. Trichoglottis pusilla is a tiny species with a 5cm fan of dark green leaves and small sprays of relatively large flowers with delightful dark red stripes. Trichoglottis pusilla is native to Java where it grows in rain forest from 1000 […]

Our second Masdevallia is Masdevallia calura. The species is endemic to Costa Rica where we have seen it growing and flowering on remnant trees at 1400m (from memory) on a misty volcanic ridge. The photo taken back in 2003 shows the species growing in thick moss on the trunk of a large tree with abundant […]

As January continues cold and bright we have a feast of Masdevallias flowering in the collection and today we bring you one of our real favourites – a small growing species with enormous dramatic flowers. Masdevallia setacea is found from Colombia to Peru and has flowers considerably larger than the plant. Including the long yellow […]

The first of our Coelogyne flaccida plants has opened its flowers this week.   We have seen this attractive and fragrant Coelogyne on our travels to Sikkim where we found it at around 1200m to 1500m altitude, growing both as an epiphyte in trees and as a lithophyte on steep rocky roadside slopes.  Coelogyne flaccida […]

We have a tiny miniature for you today with leaves 2cm long and flowers about 2mm across. Stelis microchila is one of the smallest of our Stelis species and is native to shaded damp forests from Central America down to Ecuador. Found from 900-1500m the habitat is not as cool as that of other Stelis […]