Product Description

Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32428 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

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.

From the Back Cover
Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color

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

About the Author
Steven A. Frowine is a professional horticulturalist who grows more than 200 orchids in his Connecticut home. The National Gardening Association (NGA), is a not–for–profit leader in plant education.

Customer Reviews

Orchids for Dummies (For Dummies)
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.

A good start
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!