It is all action this week in the Mendip Studio School propagation lab. Year 11s (above) are hard at work re-plating seedlings during their lunchtime and Year 13s are in the midst of their orchid seed germination experiments (below) Each student studies their own species and after TZ testing the viability of their seed sample, […]

This intriguing species is new to 365 days of orchids and is the second flowering of this species with small yellow and red flowers produced in tight clusters on the older pseudobulbs. Dendrobium dantania is named after the waterfalls in Vietnam with the same name (Dantiana) and is recorded in warm forests at around 1000m […]

Two very different ‘monsters’ are now available online at our shop. Lealia anceps ‘veitchiana’ makes one of our favourite monster (as in giant) specimens and we have two divisions for sale. It produces larger flowers than the normal Laelia anceps varieties, on longer spikes and with more flowers 🙂 The second is Scaphosepalum beluosum, meaning […]

Regulars to 365 days will know that we have several clones of this miniature pleurothallis species. The clone shown is similar to varieties we have seen in Brazil with 4cm leaves and long spikes of relatively large beak like flowers. The Brazilian plants (with great diversity) in situ are shown below:   All of the […]

One of the great things about growing orchids is having flowers handy for special occasions. Tomorrow is my Son’s wedding (Covid safe so 9 people standing up in a registry office for fifteen minutes) and here are three button holes ready for the day Odontoglossum hallii, Renanthera imschootiana and Epigenium amplum – let me know […]