We have one of our favourite Pleurothallis species today, and another species that arrived with us as an unexpected ‘weed’ on a different plant. We were given our first plant of Octomeria grandiflora (day 317) in 1999 and soon noticed some very small leaves near its base that were the ‘wrong’  shape. These developed into […]

This is a small growing Masdevallia with very large flowers. The plant shown here is in a 3cm pot and so the leaves are 5cm long and the flowers 12cm across including the tails. The species is native to Costa Rica and Panama where it grows in forests from 400-1400m altitude making this a bit […]

It is now less than a week until Orchid Christmas on Wednesday 13th December from 6-9pm in the greenhouses with mulled wine, mince pies and orchids. Greenhouse club have promised to put together a seasonal orchid treasure hunt which I am sure will feature Angraecum sesquipedale. We were in the greenhouse late tonight and had […]

This miniature species from Colombia and Venezuela that produces single flowers from the top of 4cm growths and can make an impressive flowering plant in a 3cm pot. In nature it is an epiphyte in oak forests from 600m to 2700m altitude. Plants also do well mounted and we grow some plants into specimens that […]

This is a Brazilian miniature species until recently known as Sophronitis cernua. It is native to South Eastern Brazil where it is found as an epiphyte in warm woodland close to the beach or further inland. We find that it does best when mounted on cork and completely free of moss so that it dries […]