Nearly extinct, a rare Hawaiian orchid is being given a second chance. An Illinois botany professor and several of his students who have nurtured 90 delicate Platanthera holochila orchid plants from seed will travel to...
Awed by the delicate beauty of native orchids, Ravan Schneider treks across the high mountain slopes and through the dense Philippine rainforest in search of these fragile beauties. A modern day orchid hunter,...
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...
Stunningly beautiful Just Add Ice Orchids are the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for anyone close to your heart; but sometimes you want to give a little more. If you want to dazzle your valentine, consider pairing a Just...
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...
We humans can survive in the frigid tundra of Alaska, the steamy soup of Mississippi’s bayous, and Arizona’s sun-baked deserts; but, given a choice, most of us would prefer to live where the temperature consistently...
