Spring really seams to have arrived this week with a warm afternoons in the greenhouse and the annual display from Dendrobium fimbriatum starting in Warm Asia. Dendrobium fimbriatum is an orchid we have seen growing abundantly in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in semi-deciduous trees in warm lowland forests up to about 1000m. In the […]

This small growing vandaceous species is new to 365 days. Unlike Renthera imschootiana which is wonderful but enormous (photo below), Renanthera monachica flowers as a small plant and takes a long time to develop in a mature medium sized plant. So this is a renanthera for small spaces. We grow Renanthera monochica in a basket […]

Our Warm Asia section is currently filled with the delicious scent of this giant Vanda species.     The plant is now over 2m tall with large flower spikes of beautiful waxy flowers, and a heady sweet scent. This grand orchid is native to lowland forest in Java and is clearly determined to become a […]

It is usual at this time of year to have some exciting miniatures com ing into flower. This is especially true of miniatures from the cloud forests of South and Central America. Look out for Platystele misasiana and Stelis muscifera later in the month (below), but today we have Pleurothallis grobyi.    Pleurothallis grobyi is […]

As I have mentioned previously, we are very fortunate to live close to remnant patches of the Mendip Great Wood, on of England’s last ancient forests, and Asham Woods is the biggest patch. The wonderful display of native daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) in early March should not be missed. This year it seems the plants seem […]