Isle Of Portland Orchids

  Shows 2025 Update We will be selling plants at several shows in 2025. Here are the dates confirmed so far Wessex Orchid Society Show - Saturday 1st March 2025, Portchester Parish Hall, 1 Assheton Court, Castle Street, Portchester PO16 9PS. 12:00 - 4:00pm RHS Orchid Show - 14th-16th March 10am-4pm. RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley Lane, Surrey, GU23 6QB.  Bristol Plant Show on Saturday 5th April 2025 St. Philip and St. Jacob church, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA 10am-5pm UK INTERNATIONAL ORCHID SHOW at BBC GARDENERS WORLD LIVE June 12 th – June 15 th , 2025, NEC Birmingham Gloucestershire Rare Plants & Orchids Fair 2025 , 10 am to 4.30 pm, Saturday 5 July, St. Mary de Crypt Church, Southgate Street, Gloucester,GL1 1TP

 While we are still in the grips of winter the greenhouses are already showing signs of Spring. In our Cloud Forest Greenhouse most of our plants are in full growth and enjoying the increased daylight as the days start to lengthen. As a result we are increasing the amount of feed we are giving our plants. Our tank currently has feed to 400 micro-seimens which will increase to 500 micro-seimens in the summer. In our Himalayas Greenhouse almost all of our plants are resting - refecting the very seasonal growth habits of the plants from the monsoon forests of the Himalayas. Some dendrobiums such as Dendrobium aphyllum have dropped all their leaves and are kept almost completely dry. Other plants like cymbidiums and coelogynes are kept damper - watering about twice a week to avoid any shrivelling of bulbs as they move into their flowering season.  Indoors our warm orchids such as Phalaenopsis and Aerangis species are in growth and so watering and feeding does not change much durin...