Orchids are incredibly diverse, beautiful, and complex. The flowers are beautiful, long-blooming, and have fascinating fragrances and forms. We have a few options for planting Orchards in our gardens or indoors. I can plant them as seeds, bulbs, or by buying growing plants and transplanting them to my garden. Orchid bulbs are easy to grow …
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Orchids are beautiful plants that can thrive anywhere from wetlands, deserts, mountains, coastlines, or underwater. However, they will eventually die with the slightest change from optimal conditions. One of the signs of a dying orchid is falling leaves. Just because the orchid leaves fell doesn’t imply the orchid is dead or is doomed to die. …
Orchids are a very beautiful plant for the home, but can also be fairly difficult to keep alive. Orchids cannot survive if there is water pooled in their pot and are likely to get root rot in certain conditions. One way to make sure that an orchid has the right amount of moisture content is …
We all want to take a good thing and make it bigger. After all, that is the governing philosophy behind the vaunted “super-size” option at our favorite fast-food outlet. This impulse, taken into the garden, has us looking at our hearty hostas and wondering what it might take to make these beautiful perennials grow even …
Orchids have been around for years. In the Roman reign (A.D. 476), orchid roots were eaten as an aphrodisiac. More than 2000 types of orchids currently make studying and dealing with orchids a very engaging and fulfilling activity. It’s a privilege to see the curves on their leaves, the color shades and textures of the flowers, …
The state of your orchid leaves can be a prediction of the future of your plant. Many issues can pop up regarding the health of your orchid leaves, from white spots to black fungus, but wilting leaves are one of the most common. If you’re wondering why are my orchid leaves wilting, take comfort in …
Orchids, breathtaking in their full blooming glory, can be fussy plants. If their environment isn’t 100 percent to their liking, they can easily sicken and die. But how can you tell if your orchid is dead or simply resting? How to tell if an orchid is dead? Orchids rest in between blooming seasons, which is …
Orchids are great additions to any home or garden because of the flowers. Apart from the beauty, the orchid flowers also offer a good fragrance. The flowers bloom from the stem part known as flower spikes. Spikes are parts of the stem where flower buds and flowers grow. This guide will show you how to …
I find a lot of reasons can cause why my orchid flowers die. Several reasons can be the cause of death. Why My Orchid Flowers Are Dying? One reason that the orchid flowers are dying is that they have simply gotten to their life cycle’s end. Underwatering and temperature change are two other common …
Often, orchids are packaged and sold with a very simplified label identifying the plant merely as being an orchid. However, there are close to 30,000 different varieties of orchids and when it comes down to repotting your orchid plant, it is helpful to know exactly what type of orchid you are growing, so that you …