It is our half term holiday at school but we are pleased to say that the orchid shop is still open – as usual we are in every day to care for our plants. For the first time we are able to offer a couple of plants of the wonderful miniature species Masdevallia ludibundella – […]

I woke up this morning to this wonderful show from Coelogyne fimbriata on my bathroom windowsill. The plant has been growing there for the past three years and is beginning to become a specimen covered in its attractive little two leaved bulbs and smothered in delightful flowers from October to Christmas. The flowers are produced […]

   Autumn is a great time for Barkeria species in the greenhouse, and we believe that this dramatic group of Central American orchids deserve to be more widely grown. We have four species and all of them have large spectacular flowers as well as interesting growth habits with masses of roots. This Barkeria is found […]

WOW! It has been two years since my last update on the blog and what two years it has been. Firstly, I graduated from University of Chester in July 2019 with a first class degree in Conservation Biology. Then I was lucky enough to secure a job in Greece that summer working with volunteers monitoring […]

In April we split our awarded specimen of Coelogyne barbata (see details here) and the divisions have made fantastic plants after a growing season in our Cool Asia section. The large new bulbs have produced multi-flowered spikes up to 1m long like this one shown. The flowers are really spectacular and the species is very […]