Previews and Openings

Dendrobium glomeratum in the Orchid Display House

I'm nominating Dendrobium glomeratum, along with Dendrobium dearei and Dendrobium unicolor, in the category Most Dependable Flowering Orchid. Our plants flower almost continuously.

Laelia anceps variety in the Orchid Display House

Maxillaria sophronitis cloaking a tree stump in the Tropical High Elevation House

Mat-forming orchids like Maxillaria sophronitis are terrifically useful as an element in a tropical landscape. I've taken many divisions from our hanging basket and pinned them to different vertical surfaces.

Coelogyne mooreana in the Tropical High Elevation House

Four of these Coelogyne flowering simultaneously are producing a wonderful lemony-vanilla fragrance int the Tropical High Elevation House.

Coelogyne mooreana

Ravishing in the early morning light, Coelogyne (pronounced see-LOJ-in-ee) mooreana, photographed in the Tropical High Elevation House.

This large-flowered orchid species is easily grown under cool tropical conditions and flowers several times each year for us. A really choice plant. Most Coelogynes are epiphytes, i.e., they grow in trees, but ours do just fine planted in the ground in the very porous soil of the Tropical High Elevation House. C. mooreana is endemic to Vietnam where it grows at 1300 to 2,000 meters in montane cloud forests.