Today we have one of our favourite Bulbophyllums a stunning species but a difficult plant to photograph. The species produced a double row of small flowers along a flat rachis giving a lovely overall effect. We have a standard form with the lovely red rachis and small yellow and red flowers (above) as well as […]

I am sure that I am not the only one missing the sea this Easter weekend. It is a time of year when I would usually find my way to the Purbeck Coast to find Early Spider Orchid. Thankfully we do have cameras and can enjoy photographs from previous years, like these two images from […]

To wish you Happy Easter we have one of our favourite Cymbidium species, and one we have seen in the wonderful forests of Sikkim.   Cymbidium devonianum produces dense pendulous spikes of dramatically coloured flowers and thanks to its unusual habit of flowering of older bulbs as well as last year’s bulbs produces spikes in […]

One Cattleya species is particularly impressive today at the greenhouse – Cattleya intermedia, with the three different clones, shown above, all flowering together. Cattleya intermedia is bi-foliate (two leaves on each pseudobulb) and comes from the Mata Atlantica (coastal Eastern Brazil) where it grows in forest up to about 1000m and so is warm to […]

A lovely surprise in the greenhouse yesterday was the sparkling flowers of Maxillaria triloris. This wonderful species is our largest flowering Maxillaria species, and a reliable cool growing species that gives us not trouble. Maxillaria triloris is native to South America and found from Venezuela to Ecuador as an epiphyte in wet forest from 800-1800m. […]