 | • Simple techniques and professional tips for growing orchids indoors.• Up-to-date expert advice guides readers on how to water, fertilize, light and propagate orchids.• A pictorial troubleshooting section helps homeowners diagnose any ailments their orchids might suffer. • Includes bonus in-depth information on the history of orchids so homeowners understand why orchids require certain growing conditions and care.• Invaluable resource for both novice and experienced orchid lovers. | |
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Easy Orchids: The Fail-Safe Guide to Growing Orchids Indoors
 | Advances in home climate technology have spurred a dramatic rise in the popularity of orchids as houseplants. Wide availability and affordability have made them far more accessible. Modern orchid varieties are hardy and come in a vast array of colors and sizes to suit any gardener's home environment. Easy Orchids shows just how easy it is to fill the home year-round with these colorful and scented blooms. The book is packed with glorious color photographs of orchids from around the world and gives practical guidance and expert tips in a clear and easy-to-use format. Topics include: Extensive A-Z orchid directory of plants Cool, warm and intermediate varieties Choosing a healthy plant and checklist for buying orchids online Transporting and importing plants Detailed cultivation instructions Strength of fragrance and size of bloom Ease of growth and ideal growing temperature and location Watering and humidity levels Feeding, potting and seasonal care. Us | |
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Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World’s Most Exotic Plants
 | Orchids 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 easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint the species within a particular genus that are the best ones to start with. Once you select your orchid, William Cullina's authoritative guide explains what to do to keep it alive and healthy. Featuring more than two hundred color photographs, Understanding Orchids covers everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, whatever your level of interest or experience. With improved tissue-culture techniques making orchids more affordable, and the Internet making them readily available to consumers, growing orchids is | |
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Growing Orchids – The Complete Practical Guide To Orchids And Their Cultivation
Growing Orchids is the complete practical guide to orchids and their cultivation. An inspirational encyclopedia of orchids, with guidance on the best orchids to choose. The book contains clear, practical advice on growing and displaying orchids indoors, under glass and outdoors. Everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, with step-by-step information on potting and mounting orchids; propagation; feeding, watering and light levels; and dealing with pests and diseases. An easy-to-use orchid directory of over 200 fabulous orchids, with photographs of each orchid and vital information on habitat, size, flowering time and growing requirements. There are over 600 specially commissioned
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Fragrant Orchids: A Guide to Selecting, Growing, and Enjoying
Orchid lovers of all levels will delight in this unique approach to selecting new and exciting varieties of fragrant orchids. More than 100 different orchids are profiled here, with exquisite images of each, and salient details are included for another 355 enticing varieties. Profiles include cultivation information and detailed notes on each fragrance, which can range from elegant and sophisticated to downright pungent, from fruity and spicy to medicinal, from light and fresh to heavy and intoxicating. With some 20,000 fragrant orchids available today, orchid enthusiasts will appreciate this first-ever guide to choosing, growing, and showcasing orchids with the right look and most enjoyable scents, including cinnamon, chocolate, lemon, and
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Moth Orchids: The Complete Guide to Phalaenopsis
With their refined beauty and elegant flower form, moth orchids (members of the genus Phalaenopsis are the basic black of the orchid world. In fact, moth orchids are the most popular orchids in the world, accounting for a staggering 75 percent of all orchid plant sales. More than merely beautiful, they are also among the easiest orchids to grow, whether in greenhouses, on windowsills, or under artificial lights. Professional horticulturalist and orchid expert Steven A. Frowine, author of Miniature Orchids, focuses on the new orchid stars while also providing a detailed look at the classic hybrids and species. Readers will be enticed by the book’s lavish color photographs and gratified by the wealth of practical advice on selecting and buying moth orchids. Most importantly, Frowine shares his secrets on how these glorious plants can be grown to perfection, with recommendations about light levels, potting media, watering, and
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How to Grow Orchids: Your Guide to Total Orchid Care
Have you ever considered growing orchids? Have you wondered how to grow orchids indoors? Thought growing orchids would not be easy? If so, you have come to the right place for answers to those and other questions!If you have been looking for orchids information but have about given up, don’t despair! With your copy of “How to Grow Orchids: Your Guide to Total Orchid Care” you will have a handy one stop ‘orchids made easy book’ to learn all about orchid care.From learning how to grow orchids to discovering how to make orchids bloom, “How to Grow Orchids: Your Guide to Total Orchid Care” will show you this and more.Learn all about orchids and growing or planting them, what to know when growing orchids at home and access to a list of orchids growing tips.If you ever wondered how to get orchids to bloom, “How to Grow Orchids: Your Guide to Total Orchid Care” will show you!Here is just some of what you will find inside:• The Majestic World of Orchids• The List of
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Easy Orchids: The Fail-Safe Guide to Growing Orchids Indoors
Advances in home climate technology have spurred a dramatic rise in the popularity of orchids as houseplants. Wide availability and affordability have made them far more accessible. Modern orchid varieties are hardy and come in a vast array of colors and sizes to suit any gardener’s home environment. Easy Orchids shows just how easy it is to fill the home year-round with these colorful and scented blooms. The book is packed with glorious color photographs of orchids from around the world and gives practical guidance and expert tips in a clear and easy-to-use format. Topics include: Extensive A-Z orchid directory of plants Cool, warm and intermediate varieties Choosing a healthy plant and checklist for buying orchids online Transporting and importing plants Detailed cultivation instructions Strength of fragrance and size of bloom Ease of growth and ideal growing temperature and location Watering and humidity levels Feeding, potting and seasonal care. Using Easy
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Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World’s Most Exotic Plants
Orchids 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 easily find the orchids that are right for them — which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint the species within a particular genus that are the best ones to start with. Once you select your orchid, William Cullina’s authoritative guide explains what to do to keep it alive and healthy. Featuring more than two hundred color photographs, Understanding Orchids covers everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, whatever your level of interest or experience. With improved tissue-culture techniques making orchids more affordable, and the Internet making them readily available to consumers, growing orchids
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The Encyclopedia of Orchids – A Complete Guide on Orchids
Everything you need to know about Orchids is in this 71-page fact-filled book. Orchids are the most popular indoor plants around due to the fact that they produce dozens of beautiful flowers during their peak growth season. There are also dozens of different species to choose from. The proliferation of the plant across the continents has allowed it to cross-pollinate efficiently. Because of the sheer number of species, even botanists have a hard time classifying the plants. There is often some confusion when it comes to naming the various specimens of the orchid species. One of the things that separate this species from other plant species and other orchid species is that they freely cross-pollinate and create hybrids with other orchids. This allows orchid keepers and enthusiasts to create beautiful hybrids if they
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