Est. 2006 · Mail-order orchid nursery
Welcome to the orchid asylum.
You can't grow orchids if you haven't botany
Interesting orchids for interesting people — easy-to-grow species & hybrids picked by an obsessed grower, shipped with an honest promise and the moss, bark & cloning paste to keep them thriving.
From the grower's notebook
Case files worth obsessing over
The ones we can't shut up about — chosen for character, fragrance, or sheer audacity.
Oncidium Sharry Baby CHOCOLATE FRAGRANCE very popular, easy to grow and bloom! SEEDLING SIZE OFFERED. NOT IN BLOOM/BUD WHEN SHIPPED
Dendrobium kingianum 'Kobai' — big dark blooms, fast-growing, the easiest orchid ever (NOT in bud/bloom when shipped)
Vanilla planifolia live plant, the most commercially important Orchid yes, vanilla flavor comes from an orchid, grows like a vine (not in bud/bloom when shipped)
Cymbidium Vanessa Amorosi — warm tolerant Cymbidium orchid fall bloomer easy to grow and bloom (NOT in-bud/bloom when shipped)
The most honest thing on this site
Your plant ships not in bud or bloom.
We'd rather you trust us than be disappointed. Orchids resent travel, and a plant pushed to bloom for a photo is a plant set up to fail. You get a healthy, established specimen — seedling (SD), near-blooming (NBS) or blooming size (BS) — and the bloom is yours to earn. We'll show you how.
Keep them alive
Supplies & potting
New Zealand sphagnum, orchid bark, cloning paste, and the heat pack that gets a live plant through a cold week.
Keiki Power Pro — orchid cloning paste (clone your favorite orchids; made in USA)
Cattleya orchids mystery/NoID huge variety fantastic colors and patterns, most varieties are fragrant, easy to grow (NOT in-bud/bloom when shipped)
→ Cattleya aurantiaca — hardy very ez to grow orchid species, cute deep orange blooms (NOT in-bud/bloom when shipped)
Cymbidium mystery/random seedlings for patient orchid growers huge variety, no ID tags
Dendrobium pure white flower nobile-type hybrid orchid easy (not in-bud/bloom when shipped)
Teach first, sell second
From the blog
Feeding your orchid addiction
Get word when the rare ones land
New seedlings and oddities sell fast. Drop your email and we'll tell you when something interesting comes back in stock.
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