Here on 365 days of orchids we tend to feature the orchids growing in the Writhlington/Mendip School glasshouses but of course lots of the Orchid Project team grow on windowsills too. These two coelogynes and been growing on my bathroom windowsill for the last couple of years and are flourishing – the window faces East […]

This huge orchid flower belongs to Sobralia macrantha, a species found from Mexico to Costa Rica where it grows as a terrestrial in leaf litter. The plant is huge too with thin canes that grow to a height of around 1.5m with alternate dark green tough leaves and terminal flowers that open successively over a […]

This wonderfully dramatic Bulbophyllum species has just opened in our Warm Asia section. This is our first posting of Bulbophyllum collettii and the species is native to forests from India to Northan Thailand. It is similar to Bulbophyllum rothschildianum with its vivid red flowers but in B. collettii the flowers are narrower.  Our Bulbophyllum rothschildianum. […]

I am surprised to find that this is the first time we have posted one of our favourite miniature pleurothallis species. As the name suggests this species is found in Costa Rica where it grows in wet forests from 600-1800m. It also grows in Panama. We find the species quite slow growing and so it […]

Our Vandas are doing really well in our Warm Asia section and we have one of our smaller Vanda species today. Vanda curvifolia is found from Assam to South East Asia and we have seen the species growing in Laos in hot lowland forest in semi deciduous trees where it experiences a hot wet summer, […]