During our recent visit to Borneo we saw a number of warm growing Coelogyne species in large trees such as the photo below. The plants are growing in shade on the lower branches of trees close to a limestone cliff. Coelogyne speciosum is native to Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra where it is reported from […]
We are often drawing comparisons between our orchid species but this one has gone a step further being a bulbophyllum named after the genus Masdevallia. This is a new species for 365 days and it was a lovely surprise this morning to find this seedling with its first flower. The species is native to Northern […]
One perfect subject for the film team down at the Aardman Studios is Cattleya maxima with its flamboyant, large, pink flowers. Cattleya maxima is one of the real stars of autumn in the school greenhouse and is native to South America from Venezuela down to Peru. It grows in forests from sea level up to 1500m […]
Orchid Project were back at Aardman studios in Bristol today where our orchids are being time lapsed for a wildlife film. The photo here shows our photograph experts, Otto, Joe and Ed making the most of discussing technical details with Richard. I am sure they implementing their own time lapse projects at School. We are […]
We had a good look around the greenhouse to find the species worthy of day 1000 and went for this delightful miniature. We have two different clones of the species in flower this morning the first has three more upright, smaller, flowers and the second has four flowers that are more hanging. This is the […]