Welcome to Firetail Orchids

Due to high demand, our seedling flask list has closed.  New list will open September 2012.

Featured Cymbidium of the Month

May 2012

Paradise Island 'Dalia Mary'

Who we are

Firetail Orchids is a wholesale cymbidium orchid nursery operating from Central Avenue, South Nowra, New South Wales.  We do not open to the public.

Firetail Orchids (formerly Ikeda Nursery) is owned and run by husband and wife, Trevor and Pam Hughes.

We grow mainly seedlings from our own breeding.  For a number of years selected seedling crosses were made available for sale in flask in the Battack Orchids catalogue put out by Kevin Black and Bob Battye.  Since October 2010, with Kevin's assistance, our own seedling flask list has been made available on this website.

A small number of seedlings are retained each year either as breeding stock or for mericloning.  We intend to gradually make some of our mericlones available for sale by mail order through this website.

Where does the name come from?

Firetail FinchFiretail FinchesFiretail Orchids takes its name from the Red Browed Firetail Finch (Neochmia temporalis).  Particularly during Spring and Summer, we have many of these on our property, even in and around the orchids.