Dendrobium x suffusum is another Australian dendrobium.   Dendrobium suffusum is actually a natural hybrid and one of the prettiest and most floriferous of our cool growing dendrobiums, with the bonus of having a lovely sweet scent. The parents are Dendrobium kingianum and Dendrobium gracilicaule (see below) and it is a medium sized plant that […]

Our Australian species are the stars of the greenhouse at the moment – look for more species featured next week. And as well as giants like Dendrobium speciosum (below) we have this delightful small growing species, that flowers from old and new pseudobulbs together and gives a fantastic display of its small red, green, brown […]

We have been busy in the greenhouse selecting twenty miniature orchid species to add to the online shop later today. All these species are flowering size in their 5.5cm pots and include some we haven’t offered in the past 12 months such as Lepanthopsis prolifera (below)

As we move towards the end of lockdown – all our students are back to school tomorrow for their covid tests – international travel still seems a long way off. At least with today’s orchid we can travelling to the warm monsoon forests of the Himalayan foothills. Phalaenopsis manii is a species we have met […]

This wonderful orchid is one of our veteran plants and possibly our largest of member of the Pleurothallidinae (the subtribe of more than 4000 species including our Masdevallia, Stelis, Pleurothallis and Restrepia species). The species is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Guyana at altitudes of 1300 to 3500 meters and I have seen […]