More hopes for the London Show today with our large Leptotes bicolor. This plant won a cultural commendation from the RHS last year and looks as if it wants another trip to Westminster. This small species is native to Brazil and is part of the Cattleya family. We have observed this species in the […]
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It is exciting to see that there are several new exhibitors at the London show this year and amongst them is our good friend Dino who has helped at shows and events since he was a teenager. Dino has extensive knowledge of orchids in the wild in the Balkans and Myanmar and is offering unique […]
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With the RHS Orchid Show and Spring Plant Fair just a week and a half away our thoughts have turned to identifying the plants that could make our London display as good as the one last week in Paris. One possibility is our large plant of Coelogyne pulverula. We have tied the pot to the […]
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This little orchid from Bahia, Brazil was a much photographed plant in Paris last week. It has small terete leaves and bright flowers produced in ones and twos from the last year’s growths. The species is found from 300 to 800 and we grow the species in Warm Americas. The species is very pendulous and […]
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This species is notable as one of our most exciting finds in the wild. On our last expedition to Laos we were treking to one of the famous waterfalls of the Bolevan Plateau when our attention was taken by a ‘fluffy dangly thing’ just above our heads. It turned out to be two flowering spikes […]
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