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Learn how to grow the most beautiful orchids at home.
From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the 60 best orchids to grow at home and teaches you how to cultivate each one. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, this is part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides, now available in paperback.
This inspirational book from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew reveals the easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today.
Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000 members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but Kew expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become permanent and happy members of your home.
Supported by 12 projects and easy to follow practical advice, Philip shows how to welcome new plants, to revive their flagging spirits as well as their basic care and cultivation. He shows how to produce and train flowers, to collect and sow their seed, and how to plant and display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket.
Find out when to water them, how to repot them and the ideal room and conditions that each orchid needs to thrive. The combination of botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and experienced growers to grow new species in many different ways.
Underpinned by the authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Philip Seaton, this book combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty.
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing House Plants, Growing Herbs, Growing Bulbs, Growing Fruit, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Trees, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO GROWING ORCHIDS
PLANTS
Angraecum magdalenae
Tulip orchid
Barkeria spectabilis
Hyacinth orchid
PROJECT 1: CREATING AN ORCHID MINI-MEADOW
Brassavola perrinii
Spider orchid
Bulbophyllum comosum
Bulbophyllum echinolabium
PROJECT 2: GROWING TROPICAL ORCHIDS FROM A FLASK OF SEEDLINGS
Evergreen calanthe
Tropical calanthe
Cambria
Cattleya cernua
Cattleya trianae
PROJECT 3: COMPANION PLANTING ON A WINDOWSILL
Coelia bella
Coelogyne cristata
Cuitlauzina pendula
Cymbidium lowianum
PROJECT 4: REPOTTING A CYMBIDIUM
Showy orchid
Dancing lady
PROJECT 5: REPOTTING A CYPRIPEDIUM
Cyrtochilum macranthum
Common spotted orchid
PROJECT 6: GROWING A DACTYLORHIZA FROM SEED
Dendrobium bigibbum
Dendrobium cuthbertsonii
Dendrobium kingianum
Noble orchid
Dendrobium speciosum
Pride of Table Mountain
Vampire orchid
Chatterbox orchid
Guaria morada
Habenaria medusa
PROJECT 7: GROWING ORCHIDS IN A BASKET
Laelia anceps
Lepanthes calodictyon
Leptotes bicolor
Jewel orchid
Lycaste aromatica
Masdevallia hybrids
Masdevallia rosea
Maxillaria tenuifolia
PROJECT 8: MOUNTING ORCHIDS ON BARK
Pansy orchid
Columbian pink pansy orchid
Princess Alexandra's oncidium
Oncidium ornithorhynchum
Bee orchid
Asian slipper orchid
PROJECT 9: TRAINING FLOWER SPIKES
Moth orchid
Phalaenopsis schilleriana
South American slipper orchid
PROJECT 10: MAKING A CORSAGE
Pleione formosana
Cockleshell orchid
Butterfly orchid
Blunt greenhood
Restrepia striata
Foxtail orchid
PROJECT 11: PLANTING UP A TERRARIUM
Sarcochilus hartmannii
Sobralia macrantha
Stanhopea tigrina
Stelis emarginata
Stenoglottis fimbriata
Vanda ampullacea
PROJECT 12: POLLINATING ORCHIDS
Blue vanda
Wind orchid
Vanilla orchid
Zygopetalum mackayi
Where to see orchids
Orchid conservation
Troubleshooting
What to do when
Index
Acknowledgments
