This 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 and South America to Peru. It grows a little lower than many of our very cool growing stelis from 1000-2000m altitude in damp forest. Despite […]

   This extraordinary masdevallia species produces masses of large brightly coloured flowers in a range of colours including white, yellow, red and pink. It comes from Colombia and Peru where it grows in cool wet forest up to 3000m altitude. At the moment we have our dwarf pink form in full flower – dwarf for […]

I am surprised to see that this is the first time we have features the wonderful national flower of Costa Rica. In Costa Rica the species is known as guaria morada and when DNA evidence suggested that it should be moved from the genus Cattleya a new genus was created that reflected the Costa Rican […]

The April/May newsletter is out. Have a look at the latest news about our forthcoming show and visit wsbeorchids.org/bos2018 to register of find out more.    

Stop whatever you are doing and get down to the Purbeck coast in Dorset where the early flowering orchids are at their best this weekend. The photograph above shows Ophrys sphagodes (Early Spider Orchid)  and the coast from Durlston Head to Dancing Ledge is the UK’s largest population of the species. The Early Spider Orchid […]