Growing Orchids – Moalboal, Cebu
Seed pods are harvested and cured for a specific time and brought to Minglanalia near Cebu city to be cultured until they are transferred to the bottles.
The young orchid starts are grown in glass bottles with newspaper over the opening which creates the humid environment they thrive in.
When the orchids get a little bigger they are removed and placed in small wire baskets or clay pots and left to grow into their new home.
A bottle of orchid sprouts costs 300 pesos or 7.50 US which is about the same price as a common two year old orchid. The rarer varieties start around 12.50 US.
There might be 2 dozen or more starts in one bottle so if you have the time and patience you can have a bunch of them for the same price and have the enjoyment of watching them grow.
Each bottle is is marked showing what variety it contains.
A worker at the Orchid Gardens in Moalboal, 2 hours form Cebu told me all you have to do is water them once a day and protect them from direct sun.
Some varieties seem to do better in a clay pot filled with coconut husks. Others are just suspended on hooks in rows under the shade screen.
Orchid
Staghorn
Ferns
The picture at the right is just one of the staghorn ferns that are grown along with the orchids. They have some beauties in there.
They aren’t orchids but seem to enjoy the same conditions.
Platycerium Grande – staghorn fern – above
Beautiful orchid below
Growing Orchids
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I like to contact your office. interested to buy orchids for home garden use.
please email me your landline or cell number and the contact person.
Thank you!
jeanne y. te
Hi jeanne te,
Thanks for your interest. I love plants too!
dutchpickle is a travelers website that finds interesting things to see in the Philippines, but I don’t actually represent any of the places that I write about.
This place really is worth a visit (assuming that you are in the Philippines). They have a variety of orchids from Thailand and the Philippines and sell fully grown orchids or just the starts, growing in a bottle.
I do not have the phone number handy, but will try to get it for you next time I am in Cebu.
cheers
dp
Hi, so the name of the place is orchid gardens? thanks for sharing ur Philippine experience on the web.
Hi mj,
I am not sure of the actual name of the orchid garden, but it is up the alley by the Petron fuel station in Moalboal. (about 50 meters).
Ask anyone in the area and they will point you in the right direction.
This place is stunning for a plant and animal freak. I suspect the owner has major business interests elsewhere and grows orchids as a passion rather that for income.
There is a nice swimming pool in the yard that is open to the public for a low fee.
Hope you make it there for a visit.
dp
good morning… I would like to ask where in Minglanilla can I buy some of these flowers. Pls text me on this #(0915)8473944. tel # 3201711
Hi dawn,
I am not sure if they are available in Minglanila but it wouldn’t be that difficult to make a trip to Moalboal and have a look at the Orchid Garden there.
It’s located about 100 meters up the road behind the Petron Station.
cheers
dp
Hi,
I love to go to the orchid farm. Can you please email me or text me 09212143314 the phone number for the orchid garden in moalboal.
Thanks!
Hi Kristian
I don’t think the orchid garden has a local contact number. The workers probably do but it is best to just show up and pay a small entry fee and enjoy.
There is also a beautiful clean pool on the grounds that you can swim in for a low fee too. I think they charge 50 pesos per person for the day.
The orchid farm is really a big place but the culturing of the orchids is done at their place near Cebu City.
I think the owner lives in Europe.
On the north side of Moalboal is a Petron station with an alley running along side it. That is the road that you follow to the orchid gardens.
The orchid greenhouse is on the left about 200 meters up that road.
The road does continue on way up into the mountains but it gets quite rough.
Another beautiful site in the Moalboal area is the Kawasan Falls further down the highway past Badian.
have fun
dp
Hi,,
I really love to collect flowers…
Can you give the name of the barangay ( Orchids farm) in Moalboal??
Hoping for someone will reply this..
Thank you..
Hello Hazel,
I am not sure the barangay,but you can turn up the road by the Petron station in Moalboal and go up the hill about 200 meters and you will see the orchid farm on the left hand side of the road.
They make sales to people that just drop in but most of their customers are wholesalers.
You might really enjoy spending a few hours walking abound the grounds!
dp
hello… i would really love to order some orchids can i ask for contact number???
here’s my contact number 09155966731
hi, my brother is a 3rd year agriculture student in one of the university here in our city, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, he need some orchid plants to be used in his thesis study, but unfortunately he doesn’t have enough materials to use, as we look and search to the internet, we found your website as one of the seller of orchids sprout which might help through his studies.
In this regard, can you please help us in giving details on how we could order at Growing Orchids.. kindly text me, my contact # 0908878…. or send your reply to my email add.
Thank you so much, your response will be of great help. God bless.
Hello –
the “dutchpickle” site is a simple travelers website that covers things and places of interest in the countries we travel
we do not actually grow the orchids in the pictures on this page – These pictures were taken at the orchid garden in Moalboal Cebu which is unfortunately a great distance from Puerto Princesa, Palawan. It is easy to get there from Cebu City but would be a bit of a trip from Puerto Princesa.
I do not remember seeing very many orchids in Palawan but I do love that island !
dp
May 22,2012
Hi,
Can i ask if you would send the orchids or seed in europe?
Hello maricho,
I think that the owner of this place is from Europe but I do not have any information about shipping seeds and plants to Europe from the Philippines
cheers
dp