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One of the most dramatic orchids we grow is Dendrobium densiflorum. The sprays of yellow and orange flowers are borne from last years, and older pseudobulbs and produce a breath taking effect. We have seen the species growing in Sikkim at around 1000m where it lives as an epiphyte generally in tall semi-evergreen trees with […]

   This little orchid from Bahia, Brazil is similar to Leptotes bicolor (Day 87) with small terete leaves and bright flowers produces in ones and twos. Its leaves are finer than Leptotes bicolor and the flowers are smaller as well as differently shaped (and of course properly pink) We grow the two species of leptotes […]

Paraphalaenopsis is a genus just four species endemic to Borneo. They are all warm growing with pendulous terete leaves and flowers which appear similar to Phalaenopsis – hence the name. Paraphalaenopsis labukensis comes from near the Labuk river where it grows as an epiphyte from 500 to 1000m altitude. The species has variable flower colour from […]

This remarkable Masdevallia has flowers considerably larger than the plant (as long as you include the long yellow tails to the sepals) For us it flowers irregularly throughout the year which probably reflects the even conditions it finds in its cloud forest home from 1400-2400m altitude. From photographs it appears that the species is highly […]