Bewdley Orchids: Conservation in your garden

Welcome to Bewdley Orchids
As we were due to start selling our plants again, after a very waterlogged February, we find ourselves in a quandary. So, having thought long and hard on the subject, we will postpone opening until we can move about the area freely and without risk to delivery personnel of the Post Office. We will be tending our stock in the meantime and will be opening a little later than expected.
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We have been working towards a system for germinating helleborine seeds, which now seems to be producing results. Hopefully we will have plants for sale in 2020.
Best wishes,
Dr Wilson Wall, Technical Director, Bewdley Orchids.
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​We celebrate the native orchids of Great Britain, growing them from seed under sterile laboratory conditions and selling them when they are ready for planting directly into the garden or meadow. We will be increasing our range this year and will put the new species on the Plants for Sale section on this website. We hope you will join us in helping to conserve these lovely wild plants. We occasionally get requests for flowering-sized plants, which tend to be much older than our usual plants. If you do want flowering sized plants, send us a message as a special request, if possible a year in advance. This may seem a long time, but will give us the opportunity to choose the best plants to keep for you.

​It will be a little while before the new species are available, but for those that are new to growing orchids in the garden or meadow, we recommend Common Spotted Orchids as an excellent starting point.

There are around 50 native orchid in Great Britain. We currently stock a small number of these and are adding to our plant list all the time. We only sell recognised species, not varieties or crosses, and all grown from seed.

For those not familiar with our native orchids, the scrolling photographs at the top of the page are all to be found in the wild, but sadly not very often. Growing them in your garden is the best thing you can do to help them. But never, ever dig them up. We grow them from seed, so they never compromise wild populations.

Our stock can be used to produce a naturalised meadow, or reintroduce plants into a landscape where they once thrived but have been lost. It is our aim to help enhance the biodiversity of gardens, meadows and orchards by encouraging the conservation of these plants.

​Our book How to Grow Native Orchids in Gardens Large and Small, is now available to order from Green Books. You can, of course order it from your local bookshop or go to Amazon.co.uk. This unique book gives lots of information for the orchid grower and we are proud to be associated with the conservation credentials of Green Books. If you click on the link above you will go to their catalogue page, where it is possible to order a copy. Alternatively you could always go to your local bookshop and order a copy there. As you can see from the photographs we had a splendid book launch at Wyre Forest Books in Bewdley with Dave bringing along some of his original watercolours for people to see.

The latest information on talks we will be giving can be found on our Talks page. We do hope we will see as many of you at these as can make it. We will be happy to help and advise on any aspect of orchid cultivation.

Many thanks to Dr David Morgan for providing the header photograph on our Catalogue and Contact pages.

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​We can supply plants in sterile culture (at least 5/jar) at £30, which you can pick up at any of the talks that we attend. Although we routinely take these to our talks, it is worth checking for availability if you would like something specific.

Talks cover growing orchids in your garden and how we go about getting plants from seed to flowerpot. If you would like a talk on garden orchids please get in touch via our contact page.

We hope to see as many of you at our talks as possible. Don't forget that if you have any questions or queries, you can get in touch using the Contact page.

Burnt Orchid, watercolour by David Morgan

The book launch at Wyre Forest Books, Bewdley

The book launch, Dave on the left, Wilson on the right.