We haven’t featured this interesting little species on 365 days before. It is another reliable winter flowerer and at its best this week. This species is closely related to one of our favourites Maxillaria praestans (below) which flowers in the summer. Maxillaria meleagris is a little smaller growing with smaller flowers but makes a lovely […]

We have finally broken up for Christmas and a well earned break after a busy year in 2018. For the first day of the holidays we have the cutest of miniatures. Most Stelis species have spikes of small flowers but these are smaller than most (the plant is in a 3cm pot) and pinky brown. […]

Yesterday afternoon Mendip Studio School students made their first visit to meet partners at the Living Rainforest near Thatcham. The group included students working on plant projects and reptile projects in their Mendip R & D sessions. Plant group students toured the site with horticulturalists Peter Clark and Charlotte May-Miller, learning about the amazing diversity […]

The is a great diversity amongst the asian relatives of Vanda. This species produces a medium sized plant with relatively small but highly fragrant flowers. The species is native the the Eastern Himalayas through South East Asia and we have seen the species growing in lowland forests in Southern Laos where plants experience hot wet summers […]

As usual in December our Warm Americas section is dominated by barkeria species including Barkeria skinneri, Barkeria lindleyana and this species which is smaller flowered but very floriferous. Barkeria whartoniana is native to Oaxaca state, Mexico, where it grows in dry deciduous forest either as an epiphyte of on rocks . As a result it […]