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Cultural advice is available for all the genera offered by Hillsview Gardens. Articles by are available online, and as downloadable PDF* documents. In addition, links to cultural information on the web are provided here and in the upcoming links page currently under construction. If you require any specific cultural advice please feel free to contact at orchids@hillsviewgardens.com

Masdevallia

Masdevallias are orchids endemic to South and Central America, north into Mexico. Most are cool-growing, and thus appropriate plants for Pacific Northwest collections. There is, however, a range of temperature tolerance.

Masdevallia Culture or as PDF^*

AOS Masdevallia culture sheet

Masdevallia coccinea var. xanthina 'Seattle Gold' AM/AOS

Masdevallia coccinea 'Seattle Gold' AM/AOS

Awarded AM/AOS 84 pts.
4/25/98 - Portland, Oregon
Hillsview Gardens

Masdevallia coccinea 'Josephine' FCC/AOS 94 pts.

Awarded FCC, 4/25/98
Hillsview Gardens

Miltoniopsis

The Miltoniopsis produce among the most beautiful and fragrant flowers in the Subtribe, Oncidiinae. These intermediate growers have long been misunderstood due to so much misinformation that has been written concerning their cultural requirements. Because these Hybrid Miltoniopsis are so far removed from the species it is fair to say they posses a great deal of hybrid vigor. They grow quickly into specimen plants with great numbers of spikes and flowers, giving the grower, exquisite display plants for show and enjoyment! Cultural requirements well practiced will give Miltoniopsis plants that grow and flower year after year with ease!

Miltoniopsis Culture or as PDF

AOS Miltoniopsis culture sheet

Bronze Display Award
Hillsview Gardens
!6th World Orchid Conference 1999

Show review by
Howard Ginsberg of Bedford Orchids
Copyright (c) 1999 Jim Kennedy

Paphiopedilums

There are many good reasons for growing Complex Paphiopedilums. These hybrids offer the home grower ease of culture with attention to a few cultural requirements. Paphiopedilums produce large flowers that last for a month or longer and are ideal for indoor culture. The Complex Paphiopedilums are once again gaining favor among orchid enthusiasts and with good reason. They begin to delight with their long lasting flowers in the Fall, Winter and Spring, when the days are cold and dreary.

The Maudiae and Brachypedilum Type Paphiopedilums require warmer temperatures than the Complex Hybrids. This group is also ideal for indoor culture and the two types can be grown together. The Maudiae and Brachy types offer the grower plants with mottled foliage and are very attractive even when they are not in flower. Many of the Maudiae types will flower more than once per year. The Brachy and Multifloral types do not flower but once a year. A good selection within these groups of plants gives a long and nearly continual bloom throughout the year.

Paphiopedilum Culture or as PDF

AOS Paphiopedilum culture sheet