A little reminder – December 3rd – 6.30pm-7.30 pm Join us via Zoom in the School Greenhouse to celebrate Christmas with a tour of our December orchids, stories of tropical forests and a chance to buy Christmas Orchids for delivery, or click and collect (on the following Saturday). Join via this link at 6.30pm on […]
Yesterday evening the Orchid project students and I were working hard to prepare for this evening’s Virtual Orchid Christmas Event, and we were delighted to find that our specimen plant of Maxillaria picta has burst into flower just in time for the celebrations.The photograph below shows the red spots that give the species its name. […]
Our Virtual Christmas Festival tomorrow will feature students in our wonderful propagation laboratory with a live demonstration of seed propagation techniques. We will also add some flasks like the one above (Gongora dressleri) for sale and these will be going onto the shop some time on Thursday. For anyone who has not tried flasks before […]
Christmas is always pink in the School Greenhouse with lots of large flowered pink orchids coming into flower. One of the most spectacular is this compact Cattleya species from Brazil. This is and unusual Cattleya as it produces flowers on spikes produced in the Autumn from the base of the newly matured pseudobulbs, while […]
Some orchids never miss our Christmas orchid events and Pleurothallis truncata is one of them. The species is remarkable for its long spikes of little orange ball like flowers. This leaf has produced three flower spikes (the most we have seen is four) and for the next eight weeks there will be a spectacular show […]