All Posts Tagged With: "flower garden"
Beautifying the Yard: Flower Gardening
Flower gardening is one way to make a huge difference in the yard and raise the value of any home. There are so many different choices in flowers that a flower garden can change every year or even every month! In addition, there are ways to green garden, which means that all of the products […]
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No Time Like the Present to Join the Orchid Craze
Since tulip mania (or “tulipomania”) crested in the Netherlands until the present day no one group of plants has acquired such a firm hold on popular imagination as the orchids. Hard as it is to picture, today’s orchid craze doesn’t hold a candle to the passion that the plants inspired in our Victorian ancestors in […]
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The Orchid’s Deadliest Insect Pest
The Cattleya fly is one of the most potentially harmful pests that couldinfect your precious orchids. As a matter of fact, this pest is intimately associated with orchids rather than any other kind of plant, as you could readily guess from its scientific name, Eurytoma orchidearum.
Cattleya flies deposit their eggs in the young growths of […]
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Cut Your Orchid and Force It to Bloom More Bountifully
Very often you will happen to have an orchid that continued to grow year after year but that only ever brings forth one flowering pseudobulb. If you wish to multiply the number of blooming growths, you can accomplish this by a method of cutting with a knife in order to produce back shoots. With luck […]
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Rest Your Orchids the Right Way
Orchids need resting time every year. The exact time for this depends on the species, but for most orchids it should start some time in the fall and continue through most of the winter. You need to care for your plants differently at this time than you would during their energetic growth periods (spring and […]
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A Trek Around the Earth with Orchids
Of all of earth’s flowers, orchids are especially fascinating. Not only are they beautiful to look at, but they often bring a bit of wonder and mystery with them. Although distributed widely, many can only be found in isolated or exotic locations–misty rain forests, the sides of volcanoes, mucky swamps, for examples.
Beginning in earnest […]
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People Have Been Nuts over Orchids for A Long Time
Orchid cultivation is so widespread today that it is hard to picture a world without these marvelous flowers. However, not so very long ago, the inhabitantspopulace of the so-called civilized world were completely ignorant of the vast majority of species of orchids.
Europeans of course were familiar with their local orchid types, such as the […]
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When to Follow Nature’s Example — and When Not To — for Growing Orchids
Once reserved for the wealthy and privileged, orchid cultivation is a pasttime which anyone may indulge. This happened as a result of studying these plants both in their native habitats and in greenhouses, gardens and even the laboratory.
One important discovery about orchids was that many of the most ornamental species did not require either […]
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Bringing Orchids Into Your Life and Heart
We 21st century dwellers are fortunate to have so many plants available to us, for decorating our homes and freshening up our work places. Further, we never get tired of them; in fact, we seek more of them, wanting to add new ones to our home and work places.
Flowers, particularly, have great appeal to […]
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Why You Should Creating Your Own Flower Garden Read Here
Amidst all the necessary advancements happening in the human society today, it could not be denied that humans are most importantly concerned in having the chance to get back to the essence of relaxation that nature itself provides the human soul. This is primarily the reason why many nature lovers today are opting to create […]
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