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Suggestions for Dressing Your Just Add Ice Orchid

Just Add Ice Orchids are so beautiful and provide such long-lasting displays that the naked stalks left when the flowers finally fade and drop from the stem lead many novice orchid owners to believe that their orchid...

January Is Show Time for Orchids

Housing one of the country’s largest orchid collections, the Missouri Botanical Garden is home to more than 7,000 orchid plants. As visitors enter the St. Louis greenhouse complex where the collection is housed when...

Top Orchid Books for the Novice Grower

Add these top orchid books to your holiday wish list to learn more about orchid care and why most orchids are neither fragile nor difficult to grow. One of the most popular orchid species, the stunning Just Add Ice ...

Tips for Growing Beautiful Phalaenopsis Orchids

Just Add Ice Phalaenopsis orchids are one of the hardiest and easiest to grow orchid species, making them an excellent choice for novice orchid growers. Provide orchids with the basic necessities – water, light and...

Orchid Care: When and How to Cut an Orchid Leaf

In the “Care” section of our Just Add Ice Orchids website, you’ll find a section that asks, “Having Trouble?” and it’s there that you’ll find advice on Discolored Orchid Leaves, Orchid Flower or Bud Loss, Orchid Pests...

The Orchid Care Glossary from R to S

In case you’re wondering where Q went, there were no entries for it in the American Orchid Society’s glossary, so we skipped it! Though we did find this very extensive orchid glossary with a few Q’s – quadrangular,...

If You Think You Killed Your Orchid

Here is some comfort for those who find they have accidentally killed their orchids from Larry Litwin, a veteran grower:

The Orchid Care Glossary from M to P

Learning orchid terminology involves a refresher on basic biology, so we’ve included links to help you out. Here are letters “M” through “P” from the American Orchid Society’s glossary.