Our display and sales plants are now safely stored at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens ready for today. – we will post details here. One plant that has flowered just in time is Coelogyne velutina with its gorgeous pendulous flower spikes. Coelogyne velutina has a lot in common with other warm growing species with long […]

We have some magnificent miniatures for the journey to Glasgow today, especially our Platystele species. Platystele schmidchenii is native to wet forests from Peru to Colombia from 1000 to 2400m altitude and is rather extraordinary for the enormous amount of flower it produces on upright stems held well clear of the 2cm long leaves. Our […]

Gathering plants for our display in Galsgow this weekend we are pleased to have Dendrobium densiflorum in flower. Dendrobium densiflorum has to be one of the most dramatic orchids we grow, and we have been fortunate to see it flowering its natural habitat too. In Sikkim the species grows at around 1000m where it lives […]

I have just finished preparing plants for our Glasgow Orchid Fair sales table and am delighted to have 103 species on our sales list. Thanks again must go to my wonderful team of students and volunteers for all their hard work propagating plants in the lab and the greenhouse.  

Some orchids, such as this species, are very straight forward to grow and always flower reliably. This large growing Oncidium species is native to Central America where it is found as an epiphyte in dryish forest from about 500 to 1500m altitude. The plant grows new growths rapidly during the summer and then long spikes […]