Draculas are spectacular relatives of Masdevallia and a genus with many species produce a fantastic show of flowers. Dracula deltoidea that is flowering this week has smaller flowers than most of our other dracula species  but makes up for this in the number of flowers a plant produces. As you can see the flowers are […]

This Gongora species has not featured before on 365 days of orchids but is a really lovely plant with masses of small flowers on long spikes. This plant currently has two spikes 70-80 Cm long and a total of 46 flowers each 2cm across. The flowers are fragrant and seem relatively long lasting (just over […]

I find it hard to believe that we haven’t posted this astonishing Masdevallia before on 365 days. Several Masdevallia species have very bright flowers but M. lucernula must be our brightest species and with its scarlet tubular flowers positively glowing against its dark green leaves. The name means little lantern which a great name to […]

This is the next in our series of articles about orchid culture at the Orchid Project. Do check out the rest of our culture articles here. In the School Greenhouse our most diverse and crowded section is ‘Cool Americas’ where we grow around 400 species of orchids from the mountains of South and Central America. […]

A massive thank you to the Cheltenham Orchid Society yesterday’s show. The student team were fantastic and spent the day talking to orchid growers and explaining about their work at Mendip and Writhlington. We also had a really busy time on the sales table so well done to all of Orchid Project for growing such […]