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Color your world with orchids
Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren′t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants.
Discover how to:
∗ Select orchids that will thrive in your home
∗ Water, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchids
∗ Decipher complicated orchid names
∗ Get familiar with favorite orchid varieties
∗ Create spectacular orchid displays
Color your world with orchids
Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren′t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants.
Discover how to:
∗ Select orchids that will thrive in your home
∗ Water, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchids
∗ Decipher complicated orchid names
∗ Get familiar with favorite orchid varieties
∗ Create spectacular orchid displays
From the Author
Believe it or not, orchids — the most glamorous and spectacular flowering plants in the world, nature’s true masterpieces — are easy to grow! You just need to give them what they need. And their requirements are not difficult to meet — adequate light, humidity, water, and ventilation. Sure, there are other nuances, like fertilizing, repotting, insect and disease control, but none of these are daunting. I’ve been growing and blooming orchids in my home for almost 40 years — mostly not in a greenhouse, but under lights or in the windowsill.
Helping you achieve success with these glorious plants is my pleasurable mission. If you follow the steps I lay out in this book, you will grow orchids that thrive. Everything in this book comes from many years of my own trials and errors — not from theories about what should happen or what orchids might need. Sure, I’m a professional horticulturist, but probably more importantly, I’m a hands-on, sometimes fanatical, home orchid grower. I don’t share with you anything in this book that I haven’t tried myself or am sure that works.
Years ago, the methods of orchid culture were well-guarded secrets, hoarded by commercial growers and private estate gardeners. That’s not the case here. This is a tell-all book where all secrets are revealed. So you can now enter this wonderful world of orchids without fear, knowing that you’re armed with the information you need to be successful and enjoy one of the most rewarding and fascinating, lifelong hobbies that you’ll ever experience — growing orchids.
Helping you achieve success with these glorious plants is my pleasurable mission. If you follow the steps I lay out in this book, you will grow orchids that thrive. Everything in this book comes from many years of my own trials and errors — not from theories about what should happen or what orchids might need. Sure, I’m a professional horticulturist, but probably more importantly, I’m a hands-on, sometimes fanatical, home orchid grower. I don’t share with you anything in this book that I haven’t tried myself or am sure that works.
Years ago, the methods of orchid culture were well-guarded secrets, hoarded by commercial growers and private estate gardeners. That’s not the case here. This is a tell-all book where all secrets are revealed. So you can now enter this wonderful world of orchids without fear, knowing that you’re armed with the information you need to be successful and enjoy one of the most rewarding and fascinating, lifelong hobbies that you’ll ever experience — growing orchids.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
NEW TO ORCHIDS?...ALWAYS LOOKING BUT FRIGHTENED TO BUY?... This is a MUST HAVE book for you.Very easy to understand. Everything explained in simple English.Even contains a table with the pronounceable way of the orchids names.My husband has adored orchids for many years,but worried and unsure of the upkeep.In 2007 I bought this book as a Christmas present,to go with his one new orchid.2008 he is going to build a garden room for his beloved collection,which includes one of mine....and guess what I am having for a birthday present this year! Highly recommend.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book does things like:
uses the light levels of Hawaii and New England (can you guess what the light's like in New England)as guides for various light level requirements of certain orchids. What about the light in Scotland, Middle or South England, Wales?
Even the names of compost components are American and it is not always obvious what their UK counterpart is (even if there is one),
the suppliers and web links etc are also for the US market.
Finally there are many hybrids and cultivars in this book and unless you check them individually there is no way of telling if they are available here. In my experience of other plants' cultivars that are available to the US market they are often not available here.
If you are a beginner it would make sense to by a book with UK specific information.
No attempt has been made by the authors or publishers to internationalise this book except the attempt to sell it to us.
I would try The Orchid Expert as a cheaper and UK oriented alternative.
uses the light levels of Hawaii and New England (can you guess what the light's like in New England)as guides for various light level requirements of certain orchids. What about the light in Scotland, Middle or South England, Wales?
Even the names of compost components are American and it is not always obvious what their UK counterpart is (even if there is one),
the suppliers and web links etc are also for the US market.
Finally there are many hybrids and cultivars in this book and unless you check them individually there is no way of telling if they are available here. In my experience of other plants' cultivars that are available to the US market they are often not available here.
If you are a beginner it would make sense to by a book with UK specific information.
No attempt has been made by the authors or publishers to internationalise this book except the attempt to sell it to us.
I would try The Orchid Expert as a cheaper and UK oriented alternative.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am an orchid lover but I had very little knowledge about my favourite flowers. This book helped me a lot to understand the basics and to avoid classic mistakes. I feel now better prepared to start my own orchids collection!
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Orchids for Dummies
An excellent handbook for newcomers to orchids and also for growers of many years. There is something for every orchid lover in this book
Published 17 months ago by Mrs. J. M. Lewis
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This book is really easy to understand and is broken up into short, easy to understand sections. No need to read the book from start to finish, you can just jump into the section... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Nosila
Always be a DUMMY
As an early dummy. (actually always have been, but only just realised) my approach to orchids has just been to stick them in steamy bathroom with a drop of water when I remembered,... Read more
Published on 4 April 2010 by M. J. Smith
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