A massive well done to our brilliant display team who put together this year’s RHS Orchid Show Display at Wisley.  The team of four Mendip Studio School Students, Zoe and Jacob worked from 6am until 5pm, not getting home until 8.30pm – a long but productive day. The show opens to the public tomorrow morning […]

It is Dendrobium nobile time in our Cool Asia section starting with our alba or ‘virginale’ clone – just in time for tomorrow’s show. The more common pink clones (below) will be following later in the month and during April. We have several clones of this Himalayan species that represent the wonderful diversity we have […]

Tomorrow morning we are off to Wisley for the RHS Orchid show. The team here have just finished preparing the sale plants and we have a delighted to have 120 species to bring with us from seedlings in-vitro, to plants in 6cm pots and a few monster plants in 30cm pots. We hope to see […]

Along with the large dramatic orchids like yeaterday’s Dendrobium aphyllum, we have lots of more subtle, smaller orchids in flower for this weekend’s show. Stelis superbiens is the largest flowered of our many Stelis species and the soft pinky-brown flowers give a subtle but beautiful display. The species is found from Mexico right through Central […]

A joy this morning is the wonderful flowers of Dendrobium aphyllum – one of my favourite orchids whether in the wild or in cultivation  with its luscious flowers on leafless pseudobulbs . We have seen the species during our spring visits to Sikkim where it is common on the road from Siliguri to Gangtok Dendrobium […]