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HAVE YOU SEEN OUR LIZARDS?Here at Burnham Nurseries, there are occasional sightings of lizards – usually in the roof space of the area we call ‘Orchid Paradise’ where the fish pond is. It is always worth casting your eyes upwards to see if any are around!One of our café staff captured a video of two lizards outside on the patio in July 2023. T..

New WorkshopsNew and Improved WorkshopsThese new half-day workshops will cover a range of topics and they’re more tailored to some specific areas of orchid growing that we commonly get asked for help with. We have set these up to fine tune your growing habits to help your orchids thrive.Click the titles below for more info, prices, dates or to book..

* * * * * NOW FINISHED * * * * *Orchid Growing SurveyOrchid enthusiast Wayne Haywood has devised a survey to get an idea of the orchid world in the UK at present. We would really appreciate it if as many of our customers as possible could take part. Whether you have 1 orchid or a whole collection - no matter how long you've been growing orchid..

Our Orchid Festival Weekend is back for 2023! At Burnham Nurseries on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st May 2023 10:00am - 4:00pmJOIN US FOR A FUN FILLED ORCHID FESTIVAL WEEKENDThere will be lots to see and do, including: Orchid terrarium making & talks, Plenty of orchids for sale, Orchid displays, Re-potting/advice from t..

The RHS Orchid Show was held at RHS Garden Wisley for the second year in a row on 17-19th March 2023. The show was much improved from the first one the year before and the attendance was very good with great sales for all the traders. Being more out of covid times and mothers day weekend all helped with this. We put on a beautiful display of specie..

See Us on BBC Gardeners' World!We were excited to recently have a TV crew from the BBC at the nursery filming for a piece for Gardeners' World and we are pleased to announce it will be on this Friday 13th May during their indoor gardening special! Tune in on Friday at 8pm on BBC2 to see Sara chatting all things orchid with Rachel de Thame!..

We are very pleased that we were awarded an RHS Gold Medal for our display at the recent RHS Orchid Show held at Wisley gardens! We put on a colourful display of mixed species and hybrids which the visitors also seemed to enjoy plus sales were good, no doubt helped by the lovely spring weather we had.There were several other Gold Medal exhibits by ..

When you next visit us please be aware of a new road layout to reach us. The original turning off the main A382 road at Forches Cross is now permanently closed but a new junction has recently opened just down the road in the direction of Bovey Tracey. New signage is not really in place yet although there are a few yellow diversion signs scattered a..

We are excited to announce that our new website is up and running with new features for account holders! One of our favourite new additions is the ability to gain and build reward points when you shop with us online.For every £1.00 you spend you get 3 points in return, with each point being worth 1p. These points will automatically get added to you..

As many of our houseplant orchids originate from the jungle and grow on trees as epiphytes, extra food is pretty sparse up in the forest canopy. This is why orchids are not heavy feeders and so need only careful feeding and not to be overfed. Some growers choose not to feed at all, either through choice because their plants do well enough without i..

We know that lots of people are loving growing a few orchids in the home these days. Modern houses are quite well suited to many types of easy to grow orchids and by following a few simple rules you can succeed and enjoy flowers all year round. We like to be quite warm at home and with things like double glazing and loft insulation keeping our hous..

At present we are not sending out of the UK into the EU. Post Brexit there are now CITES permits and Phytosanitary Certificates that need to be obtained in order to trade with many orchids out of the UK and the high cost of these is extremely prohibitive especially to our customers. We are currently letting the dust settle after Brexit and later we..