Now that our big show is over our plants can return to one of their primary tasks which is producing seed for the propagation lab. Here Ed is pollinating Oncidium ornithorynchum by taking pollen from the dark pink clone and putting it onto the light pink clone. When ever possible we produce seed by using […]

We have had a big increase in visitors to our website since the British Orchid Show and so if you are a new visitor it may be useful to explain 365 days of orchids. On January 1st 2017 we set ourselves the challenge of posting a different orchid species that was flowering in the greenhouses […]

As autumn settles on the greenhouse it is time to look ahead to spring next year and the shows we will be attending. Amongst the team we will need to decide who is going to be responsible for creating our displays, plants we can add to our sales table and of course looking at our […]

Some of our orchids are compact and convenient to grow others are not. These very attractive flowers belong to one of our more challenging Brazilian species. This relative of Oncidium grows 3cm pseudobulbs separated by 15cm of vertical rhizome and so rapidly climb up from any basket or support they are given. I am sure […]

  This remarkable orchid is one we have seen growing in hot dry rainforests in lowland Guatemala and in cool mountain forest in Brazil. The range of the species has actually been recorded from Mexico to Argentina and from 300-3900m altitude. Few orchids exist across such a range of habitats. We first observed the species […]