Yesterday’s Barbosella australis was a miniature but this species takes tiny to a new level. Barbosella dusenii is our orchid with the smallest leaves. The leaves are a few mm long and produced on a creeping rhizome with relatively gigantic flowers produced a couple of times every year. We grow the species mounted which it […]

Pleurothallis endotrachys, Restrepia lankesteri and Epidendrum centrodenium have appeared on our shop for the first time.(all above) We have restocked the miniatures Dryadella simula and Barbosella australis and Epidendrum pepperonia.(all below)  

  This week looks like being Barbosella week. First we have our most vigorous species, Barbosella australis. This species is a real miniature with 5mm leaves along a creeping rhizome and relatively large flowers single produced in profusion. Barbosella australis is native to Southern Brazil (australis means ‘southern’ and doesn’t refer to Australia – the […]

This beautiful species usually flowers in the autumn and is a liuttle early  this year This is a warm growing species from Central America found from Nicaragua to Panama and the nearby regions of Colombia. The short lived but very attractive and fragrant flowers are produced from the base of newly matured bulbs and in common […]

The new term is now well under way and students have been sending out orders from our online shop. We have now passed 1000 sales so lots to keep us busy in the greenhouse and the lab.