This is a small growing masdevallia species with 5cm leaves that produces lots of relatively large flowers which contrast beautifully with the glossy dark green leaves. The species is endemic to Venezuela where it grows in deep shade in forests from 1100-1800m altitude. We grow this species in a very shaded spot in our […]

This Dracula species is native to cloud forests in Colombia at around 1800m altitude. As with most Draculas it is pollinated by fungus gnats and attracts them with a fake mushroom shaped lip. This also give the ‘Monkey Face’ look shared by a number of species. We grow the plant in Cool Americas but find […]

  This species is a real miniature with 5mm leaves along a creeping rhizome and relatively large flowers single produced in profusion. Barbosella australis is native to Southern Brazil (australis means ‘southern’ and doesn’t refer to Australia – the southern land) and we have seen related species in Brazil at around 1200m in primary forest […]

Most of our Cymbidium species are cool growing and flower in the winter months but this species reliably flowers at the end of August. Cymbidium dayanum is a very graceful warm growing Cymbidium native to lowland forests from Sikkim in the west to Japan in the east and south through South East Asia to the […]

This dramatic orchid species is native to Brazil where it is found as an epiphyte on trees or lithophyte on rocks near the atlantic coast or inland in damp forests up to around 1200m. It is reported as restricted to rocks near water in dryer areas. We grow plants in baskets of course bark but […]