We have had a wonderful day in the Mendip Orchid Labs today where we have been joined by Dr David Roberts from Kent University. Dr Roberts has been working with Orchid Project students since 2004, both in his previous role at Kew and his current role leading the Wildlife Conservation Degree at Kent University, and […]

Our star orchid this week is our specimen plant of Stelis thermophyla. This stunning stelis is a small growing floriferous species from Brazil. Every summer plants are smothered in delicate pinky brown flowers in charming upright spikes. Stelis thermophila is native to coastal forests in Brazil where it grows in warm wet forests at lower […]

It is a Pigeon Orchid day here in the greenhouse. Lovely white flowers with a yellow blotch on the lip – but only for one day. Dendrubium crumenatum (or the pidgeon orchid) is a well known and interesting orchid from South East Asia and a very common city tree in Kuching, Sarawak. Our plant is […]

Masdevallia paiveana is a lovely species native to Peru and Bolivia where it is found as an epiphyte in cool wet woodland around 2500m altitude. The flowers are produced throughout the year and very pretty with pink hairs on white sepals. We have two distinct clones of the species. This clone (above) forms a neat […]

We haven’t featured this wonderful little masdevallia species since 2019 which seems very remiss of us. Masdevallia ludibundella is a miniature masdevallia with large dramatic flowers. The species comes from Colombia and enjoys the cool wet conditions that most of our masdevallias enjoy in the Cool Americas section of the greenhouse. The flowers are long […]