This is a species that fills the greenhouse with its sweet scent at this time of year. We have seen Prosthechea radiata growing abundantly in the hot lowland forests of Guatemala and Belize and the best place we have found to see it in the wild is the Ancient Mayan city of Tikal. Here it […]

Sobralia crocea is a wonderful example of an orchid evolved for humming bird pollination. Many sobralia species have very large flowers like our Sobralia macrantha (below) that are evolved for bee pollination. In Sobralia crocea the sepals and petals form a narrow tube by opening just a little for the humming birds beak and long […]

  The greenhouse is once again filled with a profusion of flowers on our many plants of Barbosella australis. This species is a real miniature with 5mm leaves along a creeping rhizome and relatively large flowers single produced in profusion. Barbosella australis is native to Southern Brazil (australis means ‘southern’ and doesn’t refer to Australia […]

Another of our mini stelis species today and a great example of the way in which tiny flowered species can have a big impact. The plant shown is in a 10cm basket and leaves up to 5cm. the flower spikes are 9cm long. It was during our first expedition to Brazil in 2000 that we […]

In our collection we have 26 Coelogyne species and there are always species in flower. One of our large flowered summer Coelogynes is this gorgeous species, native to Papua New Guinea. It is reported in montane forests from 100 to 2000m which suggests it can thrive in a wide range of temperatures but with us […]