We are counting down to our 1000th Orchid of the Day with a tour around the tropical world and our student expeditions through the medium of our September flowering orchids. Our first tropical school expedition was to Brazil in 2000 as hosts of the Rio Atlantic Forest Trust and our first contact with the genus […]

  We have a third miniature in a row for you today with Dendrochilum filiforme. This is one of our smaller Dendrochilum species and in common with most of the genus it produces a pendant spike of delicate little fragrant flowers. The species is native to the Philippines where it grows from 660-2250m altitude. We […]

I said yesterday that our miniatures at Bristol were really appreciated and here’s a second of those miniatures. Stelis stevensonii is a vigorous small growing plant that produces lots of spikes of well spaced little flowers typical of the genus. This species is endemic to Ecuador and lives in wet forests at around 1600m. This […]

One of the most popular features of our display at the Bee and Pollination Festival has been our tiny flowered orchids. This charming miniature pleurothallis is native to the cloud forests of Costa Rica (as the name suggests) and Panama up to 1800m. We find it thrives in low light in our Cool Americas section […]

Once again we are spending the first weekend of our new school year (that hasn’t really started yet) at the Bristol University Botanic Gardens for the annual Bee and Pollination Festival. The team (pictured here) were up at the crack of dawn and had this wonderful display finished by 10am in time for opening. There […]