Orchids
Breeding prize orchids: Allan Rae
Champion orchid breeder Allan Rae is so fascinated with these flowering beauties he's created his own. They're all in the orange and gold colour range, and he has registered fifteen plants with the… Audio, Gallery
Fruit in a Bottle - Drury Hills Wines
David Young makes and sells 100 types of wine on his small orchard 24kms south of Auckland. His family has been on the same piece of land since 1896. Audio
Time to Bloom
Orchid-grower Eva Yin came to New Zealand as an international student from Weihai in China 14 years ago. She arrived with just a suitcase and a desire to do something different. Now she cultivates… Audio
Japanese brides like white orchids, so Pieter Rensen grows them
Every year, Pieter Rensen grows more than 300,000 stems of white miniature cymbidiums in his greenhouses near Pukekohe. Three-quarters of them are exported to Japan for weddings and funerals. Audio
Growing orchids
Orchids are a species of flower that can seem just too hard to cultivate for most of us. But orchid devotees Roy and Lee Neale believe there's an orchid out there for everyone. Audio, Gallery
Critter of The Week
Nicola Toki, DoC's endangered species ambassador, introduces us to Gastrodia Cooperae AKA Cooper's black potato orchid. It's name is in recognition of Dorothy 'Dot' A. Cooper who established the New… Audio
When orchids smell like mushrooms - a tale of botanical deceit
Spider orchids that smell like mushrooms are fooling fungus gnats into pollinating them, and Carlos Lehnebach wants to find out more about this botanical deception. Video, Audio
App for identifying endangered native orchids
There are over 120 native orchids in New Zealand - with over half found nowhere else in the world. Many of them are threatened and have unique conservation values, but a big danger to them is that… Audio, Gallery