The first stage of our journey is the National Express coach to Heathrow. It is still dark but everyone seems awake and ready for the adventure ahead.

Yesterday we had our visit from Christopher from APHA (Animal and Plant Health Authority) and we now have a lovely phytosanitary certificate and export certificate to allow us to take our seedlings with us to Kuching tomorrow. Well done Tallis and Chloe for sorting out the plants. We only ever take plants in-vitro and these […]

As we prepare to head for Sarawak our thoughts we wonder what orchid will be flowering in Borneo in July,. Fortunately the orchid family can be relied upon to provide flowers throughout the year as shown by 365 days of orchids. Most of our cymbidium species flower in the autumn and spring but there are […]

This is another species found in Sarawak and an orchid with a wonderfully ridiculous name meaning the large adenoncos when the plant is a tiny minature. The whole plant is about 4cm tall and the flower is about 5mm across – which actually is large for an adenoncos species. The species is found in warm […]

Today we have another species that is native to Borneo and one we may find in next week in Sarawak, Rhychostylis retusa, also known as the foxtail orchid. The species actually has a very wide distribution from India through South East Asia to Malaysia and the Philippines and we have seen on semi-deciduous trees in […]