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Product DescriptionProven advice on many easy-to-grow orchids. Long considered expensive and difficult to grow, modern orchid varieties are far from fragile and come in a vast array of colors and sizes to suit any gardener and home environment. [...]

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Product DescriptionOrchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and [...]

Most people can’t get growing orchids right and end up killing them without knowing why. There are 5 common reasons why this happens.
1. You Over-water them
This is the number one killer of household orchids. If an orchid plant gets “soggy” from too much water, its roots will quickly start to rot. Orchids should [...]

Many people think the mounting orchids is something that can only be done in big hothouses however, you can grow orchids at home if you select the right brand and bestow it with the right environment. Growing orchids can be a pleasing hobby and can horde exquisite plants that you can have or give as [...]

Few plants evoke more attention than an orchid; once so rare and costly, their exclusive reputation still renders them precious. Orchids in a living room immediately seem to lift the area into another dimension of luxury and ease of living. Many orchids will only have one bloom open at a time, yet people can gaze [...]

The beginnings of the orchid family are shrouded in mystery. Since most orchids are epiphytic that is, having aerial roots through which they accept sustenance from the minerals in the damp loaded air of the tropics they have left no traces such as the fossilized vestiges of ground upward plants. Dr. E. Soysa, text in [...]

Caring for orchids is actually an ancient custom, as people have been growing and harvesting orchids for hundreds of years. With so many different species of orchids growing in so many different climates, the different types of care are too numerous to mention. However, there are a number of general care tips and techniques that [...]

Orchids are beautiful flowers that have an amazing effect on people, there is a time in the year that you can feel that orchids are attracting more attention, they are out on florists windows and people can not help themselves but stop and admire this flower that is a delight to have in any house. [...]

There is lots of new growth and shoots on my orchid. What puzzles me is that there are clumps of what looks like new roots growing out of them at points 3″ and 6″ up the sides of the old stalks. Sometimes the roots are in the same location of a new shoot [...]