Souvenirs at Lanta Orchid Nursery

"I have many visitors, who come to buy an orchid plant to place it in their hotel room or hang it on the verandah of their bungalow to enjoy the beautiful flowers during their stay on Lanta Island. I always have some beautiful orchid hybrids as well as some native orchids that we successfully grew from seeds available.

However, as it might not be allowed to import certain species, especially orchids, into some foreign countries, I decided to sell bottles with living orchids. They are grown from seeds in a sterile bottle and therefore exempted from any CITES regulation. They contain 4 plants and I normally have a choice of 5 or 6 different species available. Each bottle comes with a detailed instruction for care of orchid seedlings in English, Swedish, German, French, Czech and Russian language. To download, please click here (pdf file 168 KB).

Other guests asked me for souvenirs that are related to orchids but easier to take home than the flowers. So I decided to look around and found some things.

I started to sell small artificial orchids that I ordered similar to the real ones. They are made from 'Japanese Clay' and are looking so natural that some visitors at first glance do not believe they are artificial.

I also have marvelous jewelry creations. They are made from real orchids, which have been covered with a protective coating and are then lowered into tanks of base metal for 12-14 hours, depending on the orchids' size and form. This preserves the flower's real shape and gives the flower strength. After optimum strength is reached, jewelry accessories are soldered onto the plated pieces and then undergo further electroplating for additional strength, some with a final plating of 24K gold.

Floating candles in the shape of different orchid flowers are also on sale and are nice little gifts. They produce a light fragrance when burning and it is easy to handle them, as they can be burnt floating in a cup of water.

When more and more visitors asked for something special, I started to sell other small souvenirs that I found nice and beautiful handcrafted. If you have some special requests, please ask me. Many things are made by artisans on Lanta Island and can easily designed to your request within a few days.

I also have 'Miss Udorn Sunshine' for sale, the only perfume in the world that uses orchids as raw material. This perfume is a very special gift and a typical reminder to your holiday in Thailand."

Mr. Pradit Kham-Phoemphun is famous for his successful breeding of an orchid that has fragrant flowers and blooms all year round. This orchid originated from his experimental crossing of a Vanda Josephine with a Vanda denisoniana from the forests of Northern Thailand in 1976.

His persevering effort yielded a beautiful, sweet smelling orchid for him 10 years later. After the province, in which he lived for many years (Udon Thani), he named this Vanda orchid Miss Udorn Sunshine.

Following this success, Mr. Pradit co-operated with several government agencies to establish a company to produce perfume from the orchid under the brand name Miss Udorn Sunshine. This is, and remains the only perfume factory in the world that uses orchids as raw material.

Visit Lanta Orchid Nursery to buy one bottle of perfume as a very special gift and a typical memory to your holiday in Thailand.