Just a note to those waiting for plant orders made last week. It seems that last week’s icy weather has gone and we will resume sending orders on Monday

This species is a real miniature and this January we have three terminal clusters of the rather sweet and relatively large star like flowers. This species is the smallest Epidendrum we grow by some way The whole plant here is 3cm across and the tiny growths finish in two or three flowers about 8mm across […]

A treat in the greenhouse today is the simultaneous flowering on one of our primary hybrids and both of its parents. We grow a small number of primary hybrids that show interesting features of the parent species, and this free flowering compact Masdevallia is a great example. Masdevallia veitchiana x decumana has inherited some great […]

We have a new species for 365 days of orchids today. Gongora nigropunctata is endemic to Peru where it grows in warm wet forest at around 700-900m altitude. This habitat is the challenge for all gongora growers – we grow plants in baskets because of the pendulous spikes but have to work hard to keep […]

  Yesterday morning at 7.30am the weather station told me that the outdoor temperature was -3.8 degrees C when I arrived at School. Fortunately it was much warmer inside the greenhouse, and this species brought back lovely memories of our 2019 visit to Sarawak where we saw this species growing in lowland forest near the […]