Simon Pugh-Jones
Website Role: administrator
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Website Role: administrator
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Here is another of our Glasgow show species. Stelis emarginata makes a wonderful floriferous plant in a 6cm pot (above) or a small basket (top) and is a star of the greenhouse every April. Some plants seem to change their name more than others. We first purchased this species in the 1990’s as Pleurothallis […]
This is the first time we have features this Brazilian orchid on 365 days of orchids. Miltonia spectabilis is a warm growing species from the Mata Atlantica in Eastern Brazil – a habitat we explored in our school expeditions top Brazil in 2000 and 2006. The species is found at around 800m altitude where the […]
Today we have to feature our prize winning Odontoglossum cristatum. (Photographed here in Glasgow yesterday) This wonderful orchid has been in flower since January and with 15 flower spikes will still be in flower at the end of May. We have had this species at Writhlington since 1996 and it is always a special […]
Thanks again to our wonderful Glasgow team – the display is looking great for our final day and we have not sold out of sale plants yet. We have won best Oncidineae for our Odontoglossum cristatum And best pleurothallis species for Platystele schmidtchiana
It was fantastic to meet so many enthusiastic orchid growers at the show yesterday. We hope that those of you who are new to our website will enjoy following our daily orchid in 365 days of orchids. As you will notice we are on day number 1914 which is more that 5 years of an […]