Maxillaria porphyrostele was one of the first orchids to arrive at the Writhlington School Orchid Project in the early 1990’s and it is still going strong although it has been divided many times. Both small plants and larger ones are now opening their sulphur yellow flowers to welcome the spring. The species is native […]

  One of the great things of posting our orchids every day is that we can spot changes in flowering times and identify the plants that flower several times a year. This species last flowered in September for the Bristol University Pollination day. There are many of our cooler growing species that flower both in […]

I hope that everyone survived Storm Ciara. The school greenhouse was unscathed but some damage was done to the school roof and so staff and students are at home this morning. It is therefore a perfect time to post my most consistent and spectacular windowsill orchid. This plant of Dendrobium amethystaglossa has been growing on […]

  More of our Australian species are coming into flower in our Cool Asia Section and today we will feature Dendrobium suffusum which is actually a natural hybrid. This is one of the prettiest and most floriferous of our cool growing dendrobiums that also benefits from having a lovely sweet scent. The parents are Dendrobium […]

Our Pholidota chinensis is looking amazing this week.   This lovely free flowering orchid is native to warm forests in Southern China and Vietnam where it experience a wet summer monsoon and a cooler dryer winter when it flowers. We find it enjoys warm temperatures in Warm Asia and although we grow it in a basket […]