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Easy Orchids: The Fail-safe Guide to Growing Orchids
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Product Description
There are orchid books available for the academics, the amateur collectors and enthusiasts but not for those who love and buy orchids purely as container plants. This book provides a simple, concise, easy to look and read guide - with no hang-ups. Orchids have long been considered expensive and difficult to grow but within this family can be found many easy to grow orchids that are more than happy to live in your home. The advent of central heating has seen the dramatic rise in popularity of the moth orchid as a houseplant. Discovered in the jungles of the Philippines, its elegant, arching sprays of white flowers shimmer in the breeze like fluttering, fragile moths. Far from fragile and now obtainable in a choice of color and size, it tops the popularity poll in the US, Holland and the UK. This book features this and many other easy-to-grow orchids.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #487438 in Books
- Published on: 2005-01-27
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
McBean's Orchids in Cooksbridge has been growing orchids since 1879. Over a century of breeding and showing these fabulous plants has gained them countless awards and worldwide recognition. Liz Johnson, owner of McBean's Orchids, orchid judge and member of the Royal Horticultural Society's Orchid Committee, has written this book with the orchid as a houseplant firmly in mind. She is backed by a wealth of experience from the Cooksbridge team who have bred and raised several million orchids.
Customer Reviews
Easy Orchids? Yes, please!
This is an excellent book about indoor orchid cultivation which would be a very welcome addition to any orchid growers' bookshelf from beginner onwards.
The contents include sections on choosing, looking after and displaying orchids in the home. The body of the book comprises a directory section giving a selection of orchids "that are widely available to orchid nurseries". Each variety comes with easy to understand notes on care and cultivation. There is also a useful section offering advice on displaying orchids.
The whole is written in a readable easy to understand style and as it is beautifully illustrated with masses of photographs of orchids it is a delight just to browse through. Recommended!
