You don't need a landscape in full sun to grow stunning blooms. This pretty plant produces orchid-like flowers that thrive in ...

Too much water, too few nutrients, too little light, or too steady temperatures can prevent the plant from using its energy ...

Orchid flowers are not perfect flowers like roses. They are like imaginary life forms that may be expected in an alien world. Orchids produce various types, color and shapes of flowers that will ...

It’s said that flowers are meant to remind us of the world’s beauty. And with their captivating colors, heavenly aromas and whimsical stature, there’s no doubt they do just that. Though, since there ...

Inside a greenhouse near Columbia Avenue in Lancaster Township are row upon row of tropical orchids, including some that are bright white and others that are spotted brown. There are orchids with lips ...

Thoughts of orchids conjure images of tropical places and fantastically ornate flowers. A taste of this botanical exotica can be sampled in local nurseries and box stores. Strange and beautiful ...

When visitors tour the gardens at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, they never fail to comment on the blooming orchids and remark, “Oh … how beautiful!” Orchids were Mina Edison’s favorite flower and ...

Orchids are known for their elegant and beautiful flowers, but many cultivated orchids also are tough, resilient plants. They're not difficult to grow if you provide them with their preferred growing ...

Cymbidium orchids are loved and enjoyed for their lasting flower sprays. Like many other orchids, Cymbidiums are epiphytes, growing on other plants and rocks rather than in soil. However, some are ...

The thermometer said 19 degrees Wednesday as Wade Hollenbach warmed up his car for his tropical orchids: the one with cascades of spiraling flower spikes, the one with a big flower topping a slender ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Orchid Fest was in full bloom this weekend at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. The flower-filled weekend featured more than 2,000 orchids, from standard varieties to the ...

"An examination of [orchids'] many beautiful contrivances will exalt the whole vegetable kingdom in most persons' estimation." — Charles Darwin, 1877 (On the Fertilization of Orchids by Insects) ...