Oncidium Twinkle ‘Fragrant Fantasy...
Oncidium Twinkle is one of the greatest miniature Oncidiums of all time. Easy to grow, compact growth, profuse flowering, relatively disease free, and in a range of colours. It is also in my mind one of the most frustrating Oncidiums of all time. Pretty much all cultivars of Twinkle start forming flower spikes in January, which sit there for a whole 5 to 6 months promising you what a wonderful flower display they’ll put on, but not opening until the middle of June and into July or even August. You need a pinch of patience to watch Twinkle go from spiking to...
Beallara (syn Aliceara) Tropic Tom ̵...
Honker is one of the three cultivars of Beallara (syn Aliceara) Tropic Tom that were produced commercially. Each cultivar has it’s own strengths and weaknesses, for Honker it wins in the full flower and the best colour but suffers a bit in flower count and single spike habit. Where as the other two cultivars (Pale Face and Kinky) tend to have bland flower colour during the warmer months, only achieving their best colours during the cooler months, Honker just has that nice dark rich flower colour year round. The Tropic Tom range is classed in Beallara under the...
December 2015
Well here we are at the end of another year, where did it go! We were so busy we missed it. First off I’d like to thank everyone that brought our orchids over the last year, both for supporting us and our retailers. That support enables us to source new varieties for you to grow and enjoy, improve our nursery to increase our plant quality, expand our greenhouses so that we may grow all those new varieties, and to keep our staff happy and comfortable in their jobs. That support has enabled us to start work on a new staff rest area in early 2016, one that will have...