Quality is Paramount

About Us

Cattleyas Online is the result of Norm and Erin Bulmer growing orchids as a hobby for some 30 years. While we have grown a number of genera our main passion is Cattleyas. Some time ago we started to dabble with our own breeding and this has now expanded into a business. Our aim is to pursue lines of breeding, predominately in exhibition Cattleyas, in an attempt to produce even higher standards in the queen of orchids. We also will be aiming at producing quality compact Cattleyas using some of our exhibition plants in the breeding lines.

Located in South East Queensland we are blessed with a climate that is close to ideal for growing Cattleyas. After an initial period of hardening when taken from flask, all plants are grown in a shade house enclosed with 55% cloth.

Many of our initial seedlings originated from Vallance’s Orchids in Northern NSW. Gordon Vallance was noted for breeding lines producing many awarded clones (see AOC magazine Feb 02). More awards will come from crosses we offered initially. We are particularly excited with the new  yellow and red crosses which will result in an improvement in the quality of Cattleyas available in these colours.

Unfortunately it is not viable to send plants to Western Australia or Tasmania in view of the quarantine restrictions those States have in place. It is possible to comply with the restrictions but the cost of doing so is prohibitive.

Autumn 2010

What a year that was here is the Southeast. Winter and spring were one of the driest we can remember and it was necessary to buy water. That has been followed by one of the wettest summers for a number of years and it is still raining at the time of compiling this catalogue. Our thoughts are with those in central and western areas experiencing some of the worst floods on record.

 

Our propagation program is going well and spring will see a number of new crosses in the catalogue in addition to the new ones contained in this release. We are looking forward especially to some of the white crosses that should be available in spring.

 

As advised previously, while the catalogue will show the current generic classification, we are not about to go to the expense of replacing older labels so don’t be concerned if the generic abbreviation of a label is different to the catalogue. We will do our best to ensure the catalogue is correct.

 

 

Quality exhibition cattleyas are our specialty

Rlc. Sylvia Fry ‘Dundas’ x Rlc. Tribute ‘Independence Day’

To contact us:

 

Phone/Fax:            07 3388 0866

 

E-mail:                    info@cattleyasonline.com.au