Another species that generated a lot of excitement at Saturday’s show was this unusual Pleurothallis species. It is native to wet montane forest in Costa Rica and Panama from 1200 to 1800m altitude.We grow it with most of our Pleurothallids in Cool Americas and keep it damp all year. The very hairy little flowers remind […]

This is a small growing dendrobium species that out of flower looks like a larger version on Dendrobium jenkinsii (day 123) but its 6cm bulbs produce long spikes of large flowers and give a dramatic display. As you can see below our relatively small plant (deflasked in about 2010) has three lovely spikes. The species […]

Todays orchid of the day is an easy choice – yesterday’s best in show, Bulbophyllum eberhardtii. The species comes from South East Asia and is found from 1000m to 1500m altitude indicating a species that will enjoy intetmediate temperatures. We find that it does very well in either Warm Asia, Warm Americas or Cool Americas, […]

Our plants have won several awards at the Devon Orchid Show today including Bulbophyllum eberhardtii shown here which won Best in Show, Best Species and Best any other species. The plant is a real specimen with 19 flowering spikes and 7 more in bud. Each flower spike has 15 flowers so that is around 300 […]

Today we are having a great time at the Devon Orchid Show. The display was designed and built by Ben and Joe and is full of great plants thanks to the growers back at school. Thanks to the organisers for a great day. News on judging soon.