Home Gardener's Orchids: Selecting, growing, displaying, improving and maintaining orchids (Specialist Guide)

Orchids are probably the most varied and intriguing of all flowers. Their delicate and intricate nature will enthrall you. This book explains all you need to know about selecting, growing and caring for orchids. Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, while providing all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish. Dozens of dazzling photographs showcase many of these exotic blooms, while detailed sections discuss how to raise them indoors and in growing cases, as well as in greenhouses. The book also contains plenty of advice on watering, misting, composts, heating and cooling, repotting and dealing with pests and diseases. This remarkable illustrated A-to-Z features important tips for every orchid, and includes notes on whether it is easy to grow and where to grow it, what temperature it needs and much more. Contains fully illustrated sections on Getting started Types of orchid Anatomy of orchids Growing orchids indoors Orchids in growing-cases Greenhouses for growing orchids Heating and cooling orchid greenhouses Displaying orchids Watering and misting Feeding Repotting and increasing Pests and diseases A-Z of indoor and greenhouse orchids