Coelogyne fimbriata is another of our accommodating little orchids that grow well in a range of conditions and flower reliably in the greenhouse or as house plants. The cheerful flowers are produced successively on short spike with two or three flowers on each spike and the specimen on my bathroom windowsill (below) that started to […]

Epigenium amplum is a large growing and rather straggly species from the Himalayas, and we have seen in expeditions to Sikkim where it grows around the trunks of large trees forming enormous plants over time. We have found it growing in moist evergreen forests at around 1400m although it has been recorded from 500 to […]

Today we have the first of our Autumn flowering Cymbidiums. This is a group of orchids that are particularly dear to my heart as species we have seen in our school expeditions to Sikkim, and plants we have worked with right from the start of the Orchid Project back in 1991. So here is Cymbidium […]

I mentioned that the greenhouse is giving us a bit of Brazil and our second Brazilian species of the week is Oncidium longipes – a species we have seen flowering in its habitat on our school expeditions to Brazil. Many of our Oncidium species are large growing plants with long flower spikes but this species […]

It has been feeling very autumnal here with heavy rain and strong winds outside the greenhouse, but inside the greenhouse it feels like Brazil thanks to an abundance of little flowers from our Ornithophora radicans plants. Ornithophora radicans is a warm growing miniature species from Brazil’s Atlantic coast at around 400m altitude.  We find that […]