"No plant family has as many different flowers as the orchid family, their variety is quite staggering. Some orchids grow only one flower on each stem, while others can have more than a hundred blooms on a single spike with amazing variations in colours: from white and yellow through to pink and purple and multi-coloured."
If you would love to have this spectacular plant in your home, but thought that they were too difficult to grow, then this book will provide you with all the help you need to get started.
You will discover which orchids are the easiest for a beginner to grow, and then learn the steps you need to take to keep your orchid alive, healthy and blooming.
Chapters include:
Where to Start: Discover the Orchid Family
What an Orchid Needs: Light, Heat and Humidity
More Orchid Needs: Water, Fertiliser and Rest
Moving On: Re-Potting Materials
Want More Plants? Propagation
What Can Go Wrong? Pests and Diseases
Fran Barnwell's philosophy is to provide simple and straightforward advice for anyone starting out with gardening, whether that is indoors or outdoors, a good-sized garden or a window ledge. How to Grow Orchids is the second book in The New to Gardening Series. The second edition of The Guide to Gardening for Beginners is soon to be published.
If you would love to have this spectacular plant in your home, but thought that they were too difficult to grow, then this book will provide you with all the help you need to get started.
You will discover which orchids are the easiest for a beginner to grow, and then learn the steps you need to take to keep your orchid alive, healthy and blooming.
Chapters include:
Where to Start: Discover the Orchid Family
What an Orchid Needs: Light, Heat and Humidity
More Orchid Needs: Water, Fertiliser and Rest
Moving On: Re-Potting Materials
Want More Plants? Propagation
What Can Go Wrong? Pests and Diseases
Fran Barnwell's philosophy is to provide simple and straightforward advice for anyone starting out with gardening, whether that is indoors or outdoors, a good-sized garden or a window ledge. How to Grow Orchids is the second book in The New to Gardening Series. The second edition of The Guide to Gardening for Beginners is soon to be published.
