Warm Americas is a very fragrant place this morning thanks to Prosthechea aemula. Prosthechea aemula is a vigorous grower with 15cm pseudobulbs and 25cm long dark green leaves produced each summer and long lasting sprays of up to nine flowers from each pseudobulb in early spring. Plants soon form specimens with our largest plant (shown […]

The School Greenhouse was a lovely place to be yesterday lunchtime with the winter sun streaming in from the south. We are busy moving some of our plants that have been resting, in cooler sections, back to their warmer homes now that spring is kicking in. While moving plants around we realised that this lovely […]

Thank you to all of those who voted in our orchid of the year poll. Here are the winners: Orchid in the Wild winner – Paphiopedilum sanderianum Not a big surprise that nearly half of you voted for this remarkable and dramatic species found by our Sarawak team in Mulu National Park. Cultivated Orchid of […]

  Another very frosty morning outside today and the heating is working hard to keep the orchids of the warm sections happy in the greenhouse. However, our Cool Americas section doesn’t need a lot of heating with its minimum of 12C and plants here are in their main growing phase safe from the excessive heat […]

looking around the greenhouse I realised that this species has been flowering for all of the past 12 months but hasn’t featured on 365 days – so today is the day. The species is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Guyana at altitudes of 1300 to 3500 meters and I have seen it described as […]