As April comes to a close, the greenhouse is full of a mix of exotic fragrances this week and amongst the most fragrant is this warm growing species from Central America. We have seen the species in the wild in Guatemala growing in dryish lowland forest. We found it mostly on the trunks of trees […]

We are delighted to see Coelogyne swaniana coming back into flower as it is a species we saw flowering in the wild in Sarawak on our last expedition.   We found lots of large leaved warm growing Coelogyne species in the trees of Mulu especially on the canopy walkway. One of the species is Coelogyne […]

Stenoglottis longifolia (above) and Stenoglottis fimbriata (below) have now been added to our very popular online shop Both species are South African terrestrial species from seasonally wet subtropical habitats. We grow both species in our Cool Asia section with a minimum winter temperature of 10C and vents that open at 16C. We keep plants wet […]

This must be one of our most flamboyant cattleyas. As I explained earlier this month, Cattleya intermedia is a remarkably variable Brazilian species along its long coastal forest range. Cattleya intermedia var. orlata is one extreme of this variation with large flowers and a particularly large lip. This variety has been used extensively in breeding, […]

A fragrant orchid for a Monday morning. Coelogyne flexuosa is a fairly large growing Coelogyne native to warm forests in Malaysia, Sumatra, Bali and Java from 900 to 1500m altitude. It grows lovely large bright green leaves and in spring produces long delicate flower spikes with up to twenty fragrant, small but pretty flowers. The […]