The mesmerising blue flowers of Vanda coerulea are with us again. This dramatic species flowers several times throughout the year but is usually at is best in summer and autumn. Our plant is nearly 4m tall and has several spikes of flowers coming or out. We used to cope with the plant’s height by hanging […]

This wonderful miniature flowered species is in flower again today. Stelis benzingii is a medium sized members of the genus with 12cm leaves and long spikes with densely packed 6mm triangular flowers on what is definitely one of our more floriferous Stelis species. The species is endemic to Ecuador where it grows in warm lowland […]

Some orchids are equally attractive in their growth habit as in their flowers. This mass of roots and small white flowers is Agreacum erectum. The species has been in flower for months and now it is mature flowers on and off throughout the year. The 1cm flowers are evolved for moth pollination in common with […]

This morning I found myself transported from the morning school rush to the mountains of Brazil thanks to this familiar little orchid with its tiny red flowers. Pleurothallis limae is a Brazilian terrestrial species and we found it growing abundantly around Macae de Cima in Rio State in regrowth forest. We observed that it seemed […]

Some orchids are always in flower and Epidendrum radicans is one of them. I have heard it described as straggly as it climbs its way around the greenhouse but I would not be without it. We have seen the species growing in Costa Rica in wet secondary forest at around 1400m altitude where the plant […]