I hope that our daily orchid and tales of wonderful tropical forests is of some comfort to those of you in self isolation, struggling to continue with essential work or worried for jobs, friends and family. Today we are travelling to the warm monsoon forests of the Himalayan foothills. Phalaenopsis manii is a species we […]

Sadly we are closing the school today for the COVID 19 crisis. it will be hard for our student growers to leave the greenhouse for a prolonged period – but we will be back. The school will have a skeleton staff to look after key workers’ children and the greenhouse will be skeleton staffed in […]

     The greenhouse is particularly full of flowers this week and one species this species is responsible for many of them. Dendrobium delicatum is a natural hybrid between two Australian species, that have already featured in 365 days, Dendrobium speciosum and Dendrobium kingianum . With the variable nature of the parent species it is not a surprise that Dendrobium […]

Wandering through our Cool Americas Section yesterday we were delighted to find the bright orange flowers of Cattleya harpophylla looking back at us. We have a number of dramatic Brazilian orchid species with bright red and orange flowers. Cattleya harpophylla is a small to medium sized plant with narrow bulbs and leaves that turn red […]

This heavy flowered species is new to 365 days and we have been eagerly anticipating the flowers since the spikes appeared before Christmas. This species is native to warm forests in Ecuador and we have seen similar Acinetia species in Costa Rica growing as massive epiphytes in the lower branches of large trees on the […]