Like any proud botanical father, Joseph Dixler was happy to talk about one of his beloved orchids. “It’s the first time I’ve seen sangii in bloom. Where’d you get it?” asked Gerald Tigchon, 54, who ...

A 28-acre field in south Co Dublin, containing nine types of orchids, may become a landfill site. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is investigating six possible locations for the landfill. One ...

Wild purple and yellow orchids grow in Le Noir Pre field in St Ouen each year A field of wild Jersey orchids have not bloomed because of cold weather, delaying the field's official opening. Le Noir ...

Wild orchids grow in the Le Noir Pre field in St Ouen every year The National Trust for Jersey has opened its orchid field a month early after the bloom happened earlier than usual. There are usually ...

“It’s the Raymond Island Spider Orchid and when I first found it,” says orchid lover Andrew Bould, “there were 18 sites and they were being attacked by pests and trampled by cars, so we had one area ...

Wild purple and yellow orchids grow in Le Noir Pre field in St Ouen each year A field of wild Jersey orchids have not bloomed because of cold weather, delaying the field's official opening. Le Noir ...

The National Trust for Jersey has opened its orchid field a month early after the bloom happened earlier than usual. There are usually only 50 orchids in the field in St Ouen in May but this year ...

"Madagascar is a world hot-spot for orchids. The largest family of flowering plants on the island, almost 1000 species make up some 10% of Madagascar's flora; 90% of them are endemic. They occur in ...