It is a sunny morning at the Greenhouse and the air is already heavy with the sweet scent of this beautiful Central American orchid species. We have seen Prosthechea radiata growing abundantly in the hot lowland forests of Guatemala and Belize and the best place we have found to see it in the wild is […]

Another Bulbophyllum species today and a very different flower from yesterday’s Bulbophyllum guttulatum. Bulbophyllum stenobulbon is found through South East Asia and as far west as Assam. It produces masses of quite small flowers from the base of new and old pseudobulbs and so gives a lovely display. It is reported to grow as a […]

Do zoom in on the wonderful spots on this lovely little species. This is a very free flowering and rewarding Bulbophyllum found from the Himalayas across to Vietnam in evergreen monsoon forest from 800 to 2000m. We know this habitat well from our travels in Sikkim with its warm wet summers. The winters are dryer […]

This beautiful orchid is another start from the Malvern Show. Aerides crassifolia is found in open warm forest in South East Asia and is a species we have seed growing in Loas at around 900m on large trees in good light. The flowers are large and spread out for an Aerides species and the leaves […]

The orchid family is full of unusual adaptations but this little bulbophyllum is really unique with a strange balloon like appendage dangling between the tiny flowers. Looking closely at the three sided ‘balloon’ it appeas to be a modified flower with the inflated part being an infertile seed pod and the remnants of a flower […]