This Valentine's Day phalaenopsis orchid arrangement is ideal for a sweetheart with a sweet tooth. While the candy is sure to disappear quickly, the long lasting orchid blooms will last for a month or more.
More than 30,000 different species of orchids have been discovered on Earth from which more than 200,000 hybrids have been created. It is this exotic plant’s unusual ability to produce hybrids between species and...
John Day (1824 – 1888) was a prominent orchid grower and enthusiast of the Victorian era. With color photography a long way off, Day painted watercolors of orchids. He worked with great clarity, for the information in...
Until you get a hang of orchid lingo, glossaries of orchid terminology can be more confusing than helpful. So we thought we’d do our part to connect the dots and fill in the blanks! Here’s our little additions to the...
Scientific American recently ran an article entitled “The Other Orchid Thief: Virus Ravages the Popular Flower”. It starts with the story of orchid hobbyist Colette Theriault, who bought her first Phalaenopsis orchid)...
Also known as Moth Orchids, what is the scientific name including the family, genus, and species for Just Add Ice Orchids? Within this species there are many different varieties which a lot are not named, they are only...
In the 1940s, a tradition began in the United States in which First Ladies had what type of orchid named after them? This First Lady tradition has continued by naming these type of orchids after the four most recent...
