ORCHID NON-FICTION READING
BEGINNER'S GUIDE AND RESOURCES
These books, manuals, and resources are perfect for the orchid beginner's library. They filled with the basics and how to care for basic orchid plants, and of course, lots of photos!
Orchids - The stunning photographs in this exquisite small volume capture the exciting variety of contemporary orchids. More than 100 orchids are illustrated, all of which can be grown successfully in the home.
Orchids For Dummies - As anyone who has read Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or has seen the movie Adaptation knows, orchids inspire a passionate following. And their popularity is rising: according to the USDA, more than 12.7 million orchids were sold in the U.S. last year. Brimming with black-and-white illustrations and eight pages of color photos, this friendly guide introduces would-be orchid fanciers to today's most popular and intriguing orchid varieties-and shows step by step how to select healthy plants at a nursery or commercial grower, cultivate them successfully at home, promote blooms, create beautiful orchid displays, and even produce hybrids.
Taylor's Guide to Orchids - One of every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Interest in growing orchids has risen dramatically in recent years, and many new varieties that can be grown in the home without a greenhouse have been developed. Research biologist and full-time garden writer Judy White now brings her expertise--and her stunning photographs--to this much needed book for the expanding world of home orchid growers.
All about Orchids - practical guide to growing 18 different species and making them bloom. Explains potting, staking, and dividing orchids.
Orchid Basics - Orchids give rise to passion, bringing gardeners--and all who encounter these flowers--to a virtual state of obsession. In addition to their beauty, and mystique, orchids appeal by their sheer variety: some burst forth flamboyantly in hot tropical colors, others show off a rare purity of form, still more scent the air with rich aromas.
Understanding Orchids - Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint the species within a particular genus that are the best ones to start with. Once you select your orchid, William Cullina's authoritative guide explains what to do to keep it alive and healthy.
Orchids as HouseHold Plants - Grow cattleyas and many other kinds of orchids in a window or under artificial light. 63 illus.
The Orchid Grower's Companion - a volume for all orchid lovers that offers practical advice to ensure no more flowerless stalks, no more browned and brittle leaves, and no more dead and dying plants. Indeed, the Orchid Grower's Companion offers rare insights and comprehensive advice on how to keep your orchids vibrantly and beautifully healthy.
Orchid Growing for Wimps Are you terrified of orchids? Do you worry that these most beautiful and delicate of flowers will be too much for you to handle? Fear no more! Absolute beginners will become absolute experts by the time they're done with chapter after chapter of truly empowering information and entertaining images of "orchid wimps" in action, cultivating their prized plants.
Gardener's Guide to Orchids - The world-famous Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a renowned collection of international experts, and celebrated orchid photographer Charles Marsden Fitch, combine their talents to give gardeners all the information they need to cultivate the exotic orchid. This unmatched and beautiful handbook covers all the basics in painstaking detail, from propagation and potting to watering and fertilizing to setting temperatures and light. There's advice on overcoming common beginner's pitfalls, creating an orchid collection, growing under lights, and control of common pests.
Orchids Orchids were brought to Europe from the tropics and subtropics beginning in the 17th century, and by 1839, English plant nurseries were selling 1,600 different kinds of the flower. Long prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in Orchids.
Easy Orchids - Long considered expensive and difficult to grow, modern orchid varieties are far from fragile and come in a vast array of colors and sizes to suit any gardener and home environment. Easy Orchids explains how to grow orchids at home, from choosing a healthy plant to transporting and caring for it.
Orchid in Lore and LegendThe orchid is the most evocative of flowers, inspiring in some of its admirers a fanaticism akin to madness, as demonstrated in Susan Orlean's popular novel The Orchid Thief. This elegant survey of the orchid treats its place in legend and suggests the impact that these exotic plants had on the temperate European mind. Berliocchi chronicles the adventurers and scientists who introduced these marvels, discusses their place in the arts from literature and magic to cuisine, and concludes with accounts of the most important genera and their cultivation. Splendidly illustrated with period engravings and botanical paintings, it is literate and delightful.
100 Orchids for the American Gardener - Following the striking format of 100 English Roses for the American Garden, here is both a how-to book and a stunningly photographed field guide. Beginning with the one persistent myth surrounding orchids (that they're difficult to grow) and debunking it thoroughly, Mr. McDonald describes potting mediums, water and air needs, light and lack of light, how to create an orchid garden, and troubleshooting. From there the book introduces 100 dazzling varieties and explains how to raise and care for them, from popular cattleyas and phalaenopsis to hauntingly beautiful ascocendas, charming miltoniopsis, or pansy orchids, vandas and oncidiums.
The Best Orchids for Indoors This manual is a goldmine of practical and inspirational information, and a great value too. Orchid lovers will delight in this guide to indoor cultivation. Fitch, a member of the who's who of orchid specialists, presents the newest, most exciting, and most spectacular tropical varieties. Published in association with the American Orchid Society, this volume offers lots of helpful advice for making orchids thrive, as well as a comprehensive encyclopedia of different species. From the Brooklyn Botanic Garden series that The New York Times calls a "brilliant collection of gardening books."
Practical Encyclopedia of Orchids: A Complete Guide to Orchids and Their Cultivation This book is an inspirational encyclopedia of orchids, with guidance on the best orchids to choose.
Did you Know? Orchidology is the Study of Orchids