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 […]

Yesterday evening we had a visit from Keynesham Wildlife group and it was a treat to be able to share our diversity of flowering orchids with them, including this dramatic Odontoglossum species. Odontoglossum hallii-elegans is native to Ecuador and forms a large growing plant with long spikes of 8cm wide flowers. Odontoglossums have now been […]

A second Cattleya to follow yesterday’s Cattleya purpurata is Cattleya warneri. Cattleya warneri is another Brazilian species and like Cattleya purpurata is  a unifoliate cattleya (one leaved). It has very typical cattleya flowers which are large and frilly. The plant is however much smaller that Cattleya purpurata. The species is endemic to Brazil where it […]