The diversity of orchids and their flowers is perhaps their greatest attraction and these dendrobium flowers are some of our most extraordinary. This wonderful dendrobium is native to Southern China and South East Asia where it grows as an epiphyte at around 1100-1700m in seasonally dry forest. It is semi deciduous and flowers from new […]

This cattleya species is looking an absolute picture at the moment with four flower spikes and eight flowers. This is an unusual Cattleya and one we have been keen to succeed with for many years. All other Cattleya species (apart from Cattleya nobilor) produce their flowers from the top of the pseudo-bulb but walkeriana produces […]

The Mendip propagation laboratory was a busy place again today as A level Science students prepared media for their germination testing investigations. Following the students’ visit to Kew last July to visit Jonathan Kendon they are each working on a different orchid species and are finding optimum germination conditions by varying nutrient levels, agar concentration […]

Some orchid flowers last for months while others like the flowers on this miniature asian species only last a day or two. The nice things with short lived flowers is that you are encouraged to have a really good look at them when they do flower or else they are gone. Penilabium struthio is native […]

This is another of the delightful small multi-flowered masdevallias and this one is endemic to Ecuador. It is small growing but vigorous with 4cm leaves and 15cm flower spikes with about 6-12 flowers on each. As you can see it does well for us in a small basket though we also find it does well in […]