We are having a great time sharing our orchids with visitors at the British Orchid Show and one species getting a lot of attention is Oncidium longipes. Oncidium longipes is a Brazilian species and we saw it growing in the forests around Macae de Cima in our school visits to Brazil in 2000 and 2006. […]

This morning was a busy one at Writhlington with our registrants arriving and setting up their diplays in the Post 16 building and Atrium. By 4.30 displays were finished and we have had a very successful preview evening. Thanks to everyone who has contributed – our amazing team of volunteers, the wonderful students and all […]

We have lots of our big Coelogynes in flower for this weekend’s show. This species is a cool growing Coelogyne from South East Asia and the Eastern Himalayas. We have seen plants growing on the Bolevan plateau in Southern Laos at around 1200m where they form large clumps in evergreen trees. It is a very variable […]

A massive thank you to my wonderful team of volunteers who make the British Orchid Show possible (volunteers filling registrants bags above). Tomorrow is set up until 4pm and then Preview Evening from 6-9pm. Registration starts at 10am tomorrow and all registrants will collect their goodie bags (which include some nice surprises) with information, wrist […]

Earlier in the month we had the coerulea (blue) variety of this Central American species and today we have the more usual pink form flowering. This species was known as Cattleya bowringiana until renamed by the great US botanist Bob Dressler.  I had the honour of exploring Costa Rican Forests with Bob in 2003 and […]