Pocket Guide to Orchids

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Book Sales, Aug 1, 2004 - Gardening - 256 pages
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Packed with useful tips on how to grow and cultivate your own flowers, each page shows a different species of orchid and contains detailed information on the flower featured.

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Contents

lntroduction
6
Growing Orchids at Home
42
Cattleya
64
Copyright

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AM/AOS areas Ascocendas Asctm beautiful bifoliate blooms Brassia breeders breeding Bulbophyllum Cattleya Cochlioda coerulea commonly seen cool cultivation culture cut-flower Cymbidiums Dendrobium early elevations epiphytes evenly moist exotic fertilizer flowering plants foliage garden genera genus give green greenhouse group of plants grown growth habit GUIDE TO ORCHIDS habitats HCC/AOS high light higher hobby humidity hybrids important inflorescence known labiata lavender leaves Left lndeed Lycastes Masd Maxillaria medium Miltonia Miltoniopsis modern moisture monopodial Mormodes nature needs nurseries Odontoglossum odonts Oncidiinae Oncidiums orchid growers orchid shows Orchid Society orchids Paph Paphiopedilum parents pendant perfume petals Phalaenopsis phals Phrag Pleurothallids pollinator polyploidy popular potted plant produce propagated pseudobulbs range of color result rhizome Right roots season seed shade skinneri species spikes strap-leaf sympodial temperatures tion Tolumnia tropical unifoliate upright Vandas variety winter yellow

About the author (2004)

Greg Allikas has been a commercial photographer and orchid grower for 28 years. Numerous career awards include the Grand Prize 13th World Orchid Conference photo contest. He is a member of the Tropical Orchid Society and proprietor of the popular Orchid Photo Page at www.orchidworks.com.

Ned Nash has been the "orchid guy" all of his professional life. He is a well-known and widely respected judge for the American Orchid Society and most recently has been Director of Education& Conservation for the AOS. He recently moved to California to join Cal-Orchid, Inc.

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TitlePocket Guide to Orchids
AuthorNed Nash
Photographs byGreg Allikas
Editionillustrated
PublisherBook Sales, 2004
ISBN0785819185, 9780785819189
Length256 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Gardening / Flowers / Orchids
Nature / Plants / General
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