All Posts Tagged With: "greenhouse"
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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Blooming Orchids Need to be Kept Cool
So, you’ve tenderly cared for an orchid for months and now it is finally rewarding you with a gorgeous bloom.Should you handle the plant any differently now? The best answer one can give is: Perhaps.
Although the species of your orchid will be the final determinant, as a general rule it would be prudent for […]
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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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Cleanliness: The First Step to Defeating Orchid Pests
One of things to remember in orchid cultivation is that these plants have several natural enemies in the form of small creatures such as insects. Red spiders are a big threat, and so are cockroaches. Thrips, beetles, and some kinds of snails and slugs can also be pests.
To grow orchids successfully, you must take […]
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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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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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Not All Orchids Are Exotic; Some Could Be Your Neighbors
It is common “knowledge” that the orchid is a tropical/subtropical plant. But in fact, orchids can be found in just about every part of the globe except for the deserts and the polar regions.
About 85% of orchid types may inded be found in the tropics and subtropics, but that leaves a large proportion to […]
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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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