The British Biologist J.B.S Haldane is credited with the observation “From the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, I conclude that the Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles.” In a similar vein I would note that if the Creator, if […]

  This stunning orchid species is native to the Philippines where it grows in damp evergreen forest  above 1200m altitude. We grow the plant in our warm asia section with conditions very similar to the habitat (min 17C) and it is clearly very at home. We grow the plant in a large basket (a free […]

Several people have been asking me about this gorgeous species after seeing it as a botton hole earlier in the week (below). Odontoglossum hallii-elegans is native to Ecuador and forms a large growing plant with long spikes of 8cm wide flowers. Odontoglossums have now been included in Oncidium but as a genus Odontoglossum is useful […]

We talked yesterday about Scaphosepalum beluosum (the monstrous scasphosepalum) and today we have an unassuming relation Scaphosepalum odontochilum. This is the first time we have featured the species on 365 days of orchids. An unusual feature of the species is the way that the flowers are mostly closed with just a tiny opening at the […]

  We have added four new species to our online shop – Masdevallia pandurilabia, Pleurothallis schweinfurthii, Pholidota chinensis and Bulbophyllum falcatum ‘red’