If anyone missed this evenings Countryfile catch it now here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09170hp/countryfile-roots-and-shoots the BBC camera team made the greenhouse look very jungly and featured lots of wonderful students sharing their passion for orchids. If you want visit the school greenhouses and see the real Orchid Project we are hosting the British Orchid Show (British Orchid Council Congress) on […]

This Masdevallia species is native to Peru and Bolivia where it is found as an epiphyte in woodland around 2500m altitude. The flowers are covered in fine hairs which make them well worth a closer look. The plant is a little unruly as successive leaves are produced a few cm from the previous one giving it […]

This phalaenopsis species comes from Borneo where it grows it hot lowland forest in swamps or near rivers and the plant grows low in trees where it is often in deep shade. The species grows very attractive large undulating leaves and flower spikes that produce large fragrant flowers successively over a long period. The flowers have […]

This beautiful miniature species is native to New Guinea where it grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte in mossy high mountain elfin forests. We find that the secret in cultivation is to replicate this habitat and so grow plant cool, wet and windy. We also find that plants prefer to grow mounted where there roots […]

In June we had a visit from BBC cameras and Ellie Harrison from Countryfile. The programme goes out this Sunday at 5.30 on BBC 1 and will be on iplayer of course the program link is here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09170hp