What is cold and dark on the outside, and warm and bright on the inside? – Orchid Christmas of course With Christmas fast approaching thoughts turn to traditional festivities and top of the list must be Orchid Christmas at the Writhlington Greenhouses. For anyone who hasn’t been before it is an evening of orchids, mince […]

This very pretty small growing masdevallia species is endemic Colombia where it grows in cloud forests from 1800-2500m. We find that the species grows well mounted where the purple/pink flowers stand well clear of the dark green rounded leaves.  

This is a large flowered and fragrant cymbidium which every autumn sends up spikes up to 90cm long with around fifteen flowers on a spike. The species is native to Southern China, Thailand and Myanmar where it grows in wet forests from 1200-1900m as both an epiphyte on mossy trunks and branches or on mossy […]

This is our third Cleisostoma species. It is a medium sized plant with long pendulous spikes of small flowers that open successively. The species is found from Sikkim in the Himalayas through South east Asia to Malaysia and the Philippines. It grows as an epiphyte in lowland forest up to 500m altutide. Cleisostoma is a […]

We still have tickets available for the first Lecture in the Writhlington Lecture Series – Orchid Project. As well as an evaluation of the key events in the history of this internationally acclaimed project there will be workshops and activities around conservation and orchid science as well as a chance to take your own propagated […]