The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids
The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids
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- 95,00 kr
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- 95,00 kr
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This inspirational book from Kew's orchid experts reveals the easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today.
Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000 members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become permanent and happy members of your home.
Through a combination of 12 projects and easy to follow practical advice he shows how to welcome new plants, to revive their flagging spirits as well as their basic care and cultivation. He shows how to produce and train flowers, to collect and sow their seed, and how to plant and display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket.
Find out when to water them, how to repot them and the ideal room and conditions that each orchid needs to thrive. The combination of botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and experienced growers to grow new species in many different ways.
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Herbs, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
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This excellent, informative guide from Seaton (Growing Windowsill Orchids), former editor of the Orchid Review, takes a deep plunge into everything orchid, celebrating the plant's "spectacular diversity," with its over 26,000 species, and focusing primarily on the more common varieties. Despite a reputation for being difficult, orchids are hardier "than the average houseplant" and "survive better on a little benign neglect" than most, Seaton writes. In the book's first part, he gives a brief history of orchids before providing growing instructions for homes, greenhouses, and gardens, with recommendations about light exposure, humidity, soil, and propagation. The second part covers specific varieties such as the tulip orchid and the vampire orchid (Seaton wonders, "Who can resist growing such an exotically named orchid?"), illustrated by botanical drawings and photographs, with notes on flowering time, spread and height, and variety-specific tips (such as setting beer traps for the snails and slugs drawn to the "strongly perfumed flowers"). Interspersed throughout are project ideas, such as growing orchids in baskets, mounting them on bark, and using them in corsages and terrariums. Educating both the novice and expert orchid-fancier (without overwhelming the first or boring the latter), Seaton's infectiously enthusiastic handbook does a wonderful job of illuminating these captivating horticultural beauties.
