This evening saw blue skies over the Malvern Hills as we started set up for the 2022 Malvern International Orchid Show. A massive thank you to ex-students Jacob and Chloe who will be creating the display and organising the sales table tomorrow, and running the stand on Friday. We have a minibus booked for Saturday […]

Packing plants ready for the Malvern International Orchid Show we were delighted to find this miniature in full flower and looking wonderful for the show. Pleurothallis fulgens is an unusual miniature orchid with bright orange red, waxy flowers on short repeat flowering stems. Plants are really small with 3cm leaves and they make lovely specimen […]

Another Malvern Show  regular is Capanemia superflua. This very floriferous orchid is the larger of our Capanemia species, but still a miniature, with 4cm terete leaves and six cm spikes packed with pretty pink and yellow flowers. Capanemia superflua is native to south east Brazil and northern Argenitina where it grows as a epiphyte amongst […]

This week we are preparing for the Malvern International Orchid Show (The Counties Show) and so a big thanks you to the ex-student team who are running the show for us on thursday and friday before students join in at the weekend. A plant that usually features at June shows is Vanda testacea. Vanda testacea […]

Our lovely Angracum elephantinum is in flower again despite having two fat seed pods from 12 months ago. The name Angraecum elephantinum means gigantic angraecum but it is actually one of our smallest Angraecum species. This plant is flowering for the fifth time eight years out of flask and is just 10cm high and 8cm […]