This mass of flowers is the leading bulb of Maxillaria ochroleuca. As well as attractive and floriferous, the species is beautifully fragrant. This rewarding little species is found across South America where it grows both in hot lowland forest and cooler montane forest up to 1800m. The plant shown here grows in our Cool Americas section […]

Today belongs to Cattleya mendelii – its glorious flowers have just opened and its large seed pod from last year has just split – very good evidence that the seed pod needed 12 months to mature. The long lasting flowers of Cattleya mendelii are amongst the largest of any species we grow at 15cm across. […]

Our second Masdevallia of the week is this little gem. Masdevallis wagneriana  is a small growing masdevallia species with 5cm leaves that produces lots of relatively large flowers which contrast beautifully with the glossy dark green leaves. The species is endemic to Venezuela where it grows in deep shade in forests from 1100-1800m altitude. We […]

We are surrounded by Masdevallias in flower this week. One of the most arresting is Masdevallis davisii. This small growing but large flowered masdevallia species is endemic to Peru where it grows as a terrestrial or lithophyte in open patches amongst cloud forest from 2600 to 4000m. As a result it is one of our […]

There is nothing quite as summery as the golden fowers of this Barzilian orchid species. This orchid has real impact with hundreds of bright yellow flowers on long stems.Oncidium flexuosum gives clouds of yellow flowers from March right through until the late autumn. In a good year we get 12 months of flowers. This Brazillian […]