Today, we’d like to announce and launch our WSBEOrchids Online Shop! It’s not going to be full of plants from the get-go, but we plan to add plants that can we have propagated at the school that you can buy to grow at home. For now, we’ve started with my favourite plant: Coelogyne cristata. Click […]

I feel very fortunate living in Frome where my daily hour of exercise is enough to visit the ancient woodland of Asham Woods. 20 minutes by bike each way, leaves twenty minutes to wonder at the wood’s April flowers. I thought I would share them with you. First of course is the carpets of Bluebells […]

We have a remarkable species from the Cattleya family today. Schomburgkia lueddemanii is found from Venezuela to Costa Rica and is found in hot lowland forest. As a result it enjoys good light and high temperatures and we grow plants in large baskets hanging high in Warm Americas. It enjoys being kept well watered especially […]

Now that the Coelogyne cristatas are going over it is Dendrobium nobile that dominate our Cool Asia section. We have several clones that represent the wonderful diversity we have seen in the species in the wild. Dendrobium nobile is one of our favourite species. Its large and striking flowers are as arresting in the greenhouse […]

April is a great month for Cattleya species and this is the first flowering of a seedling of Cattleya loddigesii. Cattleya loddigesii is a bifoliate (two leaved) cattleya species from Brazil. The species grows near the Atlantic coast of Brail from 600-900m and was once common in the swampy forests along the regions rivers including […]