We have seen this small growing Vanda species in Sikkim growing on roadside trees at around 300-500m altitude alongside Vanda ampulacea (see day 130). It grows in exposed positions in good light and survives the dry season (winter) with its thick leaves and abundant fleshy roots. We grow this species mounted and keep it wet […]

This has to be our orchid with the smallest leaves. As can be seen from the 20p piece the leaves are a few mm long and produced on a creeping rhizome with relatively gigantic flowers produced in a mass in late summer. We grow the species mounted which it clearly enjoys and avoids the threat […]

This is a small flowered African species and we have seen it growing in Nyungwe National Park Rwanda. The photo below shows the species growing on the trunk of a small tree on the edge of Kamaranzivu swamp. (1200m) This shows a plant growing in moss which provides a constant dampness during the wet season […]

We have seen this large and dramatic orchid growing in cool Brazilian forests along the Rio del Flores in Rio State. Plants produce a single leaf 30cm long at the top of a ridged pseudobulb and flower spikes emerge as the bulb matures giving around 5-10 12cm wide attractively folded and ruffled flowers (hence the […]

  This coelogyne species is native to Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Java where it grows in evergreen forest from 1150 to 2100m altitude. Although the habitat suggests the plant would grow cooler we find that the species does best for us in a shady spot in Warm Asia (minimum 18C) where we grow the species […]