The wonderful thing about growing a range of orchid species is that every week old favourites come into flower and you get the chance to wonder at their beauty afresh. One of our favourite dendrobiums is this small growing but spectacular species from Laos, Vietnam and Southern China. Dendrobium loddigesii is semi deciduous and grows pseudobulbs no […]

  We have some lovely members of the Oncidium family flowering this month and one that always flowers in March is the delightful miniature, Rhychostele rossii. This species is found in the cloud forests of Mexico and Central America, as far south as Nicaragua, from 2000-3000m altitude. As a result the species enjoys cool conditions […]

The roof of Warm Asia is full of the flamboyant pink of one of our favourite dendrobiums. This deciduous dendrobium is an orchid we have seen regularly in our visits to Sikkim. It is a warm growing species and grows on the same trees as Vanda ampulacea from 200m to about 900m altitude. It also […]

   Coelogyne cristata is the queen of March orchids in the greenhouse and every day we are seeing more flowers open in our Cool Asia and Temperate sections. Coelogyne cristata is a fantastic species from the Himalayas with large white flowers. The lip colour varies from dark orange, through yellow, light yellow and of course […]

 Dendrobium wardianum is a lovely species that usually flowers in April but has joined the early March flowering extravaganza we are experiencing at the moment.   Dendrobium wardianum is a pendulous plant with long psuedobulbs up to 100cm long. It comes from the Eastern Himalayas from Assam through to Vietnam where it is found from […]