A company creating "habitat banks", spaces designed to increase biodiversity, says it hopes that a rare orchid species found growing at its site in West Sussex will spread to neighbouring areas. As ...

We joined up with Jeff, Mark, and Bibiana Pisoni in a recent virtual tasting. Here are our tasting tasting notes.

Orchids are hands down one of the most popular houseplants to grow across the world. They are also one of the most ...

ASSAM: In the verdant landscapes of upper Assam’s Tinsukia district, a schoolteacher’s passion for orchids has blossomed into ...

A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 years following a decades-long conservation drive, experts said Tuesday.

The Chelsea Flower Show, held in London every summer for more than a century, is a British institution drawing around 150,000 gardening enthusiasts to enjoy spectacular floral displays. This year ...

Somewhere in this “donated” set, Bilston explains, was a rare orchid that would ... The “lost orchid” of Bilston’s book title is the Cattleya labiata or ruby-lipped cattleya, a purple ...

The main character of this wide-ranging history is Cattleya labiata, a purple-and-red orchid from Brazil ... and novels to demonstrate how one rare flower could come “to signal wealth and ...

The plot of the 1903 West End musical The Orchid, for instance, concerns a side-splitting hunt in Peru for the rare purple Cattleya—which could easily be found in Britain. That was a new problem ...

People stand in line to savor its rare stench ... that the boatloads of orchids were genuine labiatas, but they were proclaimed as such anyway. Advertisements boasted of the rediscovery of the grand, ...

Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of orchid breeders, they have been extensively propagated and are now widely available for us to enjoy. They come in a dazzling array of colors and sizes. You may ...