Continuing with Masdevallias, today we have possibly the most dramatic of all Masdevallia veitchiana. The flowers look orange and red but this colour is actually made from the flowers combination of a yellow ground and tiny raised pink warts – a clever trick. This species is endemic to Peru where it grows between 2000m and […]

Are masdevallia species have featured heavily lately and as May approaches we have the splendour of Masdevallia coccinea. Masdevallia coccinea is a very rewarding species and produces masses of large brightly coloured flowers in a range of colours including white, yellow, red and pink. It comes from Colombia and Peru where it grows in cool […]

Today’s Sobralia is even bigger than yesterday’s Sobralia macrantha with caned up to 3m long. The species is native to Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, where it grows as a terrestrial or epiphyte, produces its thin canes about 3m long, and in late spring these large (15cm across) flowers that last about two days. This […]

In complete contrast to yesterday’s miniature Stelis species, we have had an explosion of gigantic flowers on our Sobralias. This enormous flowered orchid has always been a real favourite for students responsible for our Warm Americas section Sobralia macrantha is found from Mexico to Costa Rica where it grows as a terrestrial in leaf litter, […]

Here is another of our Glasgow show species.   Stelis emarginata makes a wonderful floriferous plant in a 6cm pot (above) or a small basket (top) and is a star of the greenhouse every April. Some plants seem to change their name more than others. We first purchased this species in the 1990’s as Pleurothallis […]