For our 1300th orchid of the day we have a lovely smaller flowered Cattleya species. Cattleya forbesii is a bi-foliate (two leaved) Cattleya that comes from Brazil. It is found as a lithophyte or epiphyte in coastal forest in the Mata Atlantica – a habitat that has largely disappeared in the past 200 years. It […]

The finial catch up orchid is this reliable and easy to grow Coelogyne. There are always Coelogynes flowering in the school greenhouse and this species always flowers during the summer holiday. Unusually, Coelogyne schultesii has a wonderful habit of flowering for several years from each flower spike, a habit it shares with a small number […]

Several of our orchids give a second flowering away from their main flowering season and Dendrobium thyrsiflorum is one of them. This is our largest plant of the species and it flowered well in April but has thrown eight summer spikes for us to enjoy in the last week of school. This majestic species is […]

As the website was down for three days we have three catch up orchids today to maintain our record of a flowering orchid from the greenhouse every day of the year (now well into our forth year) The first catch up orchid is this fascinating little bulbophyllum with a really attractive string of pearls style […]

This weekend’s sunlight really enhances the vibrant colours of our Masdevallia veitchianas that are flowering again. The flowers look orange and red but this coplour is actually made from the flowers combination of a yellow ground and tiny raised pink warts – a clever trick. This species is endemic to Peru where it grows between […]