Getting to Grips with Hardy Orchids
Reading time 12 minutes
I can see a new addiction coming from a mile off, so on the whole I steer well clear of orchids. Over the ages […]
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April Showers
Reading time 11 minutes
Unpredictability is the name of the game when it comes to British weather, but one old proverb certainly promises to ring true in 2019: […]
RHS London Orchid Show & Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 10 minutes
Orchids are extraordinary flowers. They display remarkable diversity in colour, size and form. Some are scented, some are designed to entrap insects and few, […]
Golden Wonder
Reading time 3 minutes
This solitary, banana-shaped bud belongs to the one and only yellow pleione species, P. forrestii, just one of which has found its way […]
Hide Your Credit Cards: The 2016 Catalogues Have Landed!
Reading time 7 minutes
In parallel with the mercury in my thermometer, the spring seed, bulb and plant catalogues are starting to drop, drop, drop onto the doormat. […]
Spring Flower Candy: Pleione formosana
Reading time 4 minutes
I will be devoting a post to a different spring flower each day this week, and they don’t come much more special than Pleione formosana. I […]