One of our coolest growing species today, a hardy species from China, Korea and Japan.- Bletilla striata can be grown as a garden plant but we keep in in our temperate section with a minimum of 6C. We grow this species in pots  in a terrestrail mix of soil based compost, composted bark and grit. […]

May must be here because Coelogyne nitida is flowering. We have two distinct clones of this lovely orchid, Coelogyne nitida ‘limoniana’ (above) with a very light yellow blotch on the lip, and the more common variety with a golden yellow blotch (below) This is a cool growing species that we have seen abundantly in Sikkim […]

Thanks again to all those buying our orchids online – and thanks for your helpful feedback. We are not currently offering plants in flower as we haven’t worked our how we could send them without damaging the flowers in transit. However we have realised, after some trial postings to ourselves, that many species are ideally […]

In response to lots of requests for compost from our online customers we now sell our version of orchid bark in our shop. After thirty years of experimenting we use a simple compost of course pine bark for all our tropical orchids. We buy in the bark and give it an extra sieve to remove […]

Continuing our fragrant orchid theme for May we have an orchid who’s name says it all. Lycaste aromatica has a very pungent spicy aroma and flowers in profusion from its leafless bulbs every spring. Lycaste aromatica is native to Mexico and Central America where it grows as an epiphyte of lithophyte in semi-deciduous forest. It […]