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Easy Orchids: The Fail-Safe Guide to Growing Orchids Indoors

Name: Easy Orchids: The Fail-Safe Guide to Growing Orchids Indoors
Author: Liz Johnson
ISBN: 9781552979389

by Liz Johnson

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Overview

Advances in home climate technology have spurred a dramatic rise in the popularity of orchids as houseplants. Wide availability and affordability have made them far more accessible. Modern orchid varieties are hardy and come in a vast array of colors and sizes to suit any gardener's home environment.

Easy Orchids shows just how easy it is to fill the home year-round with these colorful and scented blooms. The book is packed with glorious color photographs of orchids from around the world and gives practical guidance and expert tips in a clear and easy-to-use format.

Topics include:

Extensive A-Z orchid directory of plants
Cool, warm and intermediate varieties
Choosing a healthy plant and checklist for buying orchids online
Transporting and importing plants
Detailed cultivation instructions
Strength of fragrance and size of bloom
Ease of growth and ideal growing temperature and location
Watering and humidity levels
Feeding, potting and seasonal care.

Using Easy Orchids, gardeners everywhere will discover how fail-safe and rewarding it can be to grow orchids at home.

About the Author, Liz Johnson

Liz Johnson is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, an orchid judge and the owner of McBean's Orchids, a company that has been growing orchids since 1879.

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Editorials

HortIdeas

Well-illustrated advice on picking appropriate orchids, caring for them, and displaying them attractively... Orchids for the rest of us -- there's an idea whose time appears to have come.

Vancouver Sun

[Recommended as a book for novices] A clear guide to all the main types and the most reliable cultivars.

Biology Digest

This easy-to-use book is filled with important facts and expert techniques... a fabulous book that covers everything in a no-no-nonsense manner.

Michigan Gardener

Beautifully illustrated and up-to-date... gardeners of all levels will discover how fail-safe it can be to grow orchids.

London Free Press

Proven, simple, yet expert advice on growing a wide range of orchids in the home.

Newark Star-Ledger

Especially useful for the home grower is "Easy Orchids"... Here are 85 orchids most suitable for the home -- with detailed information on daily care.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Johnson takes a calm and simple approach to growing one of the most popular, yet confounding, houseplants... easy to read and follow... lovely color photographs.

Current Books on Gardening and Botany [Chicago Bot

Both common and unusual cultivars... concise, pertinent, practical information in an easy to find format.

Garden Compass

This guide shows how to choose the right orchids for your home and then, in easy terms, explains how to care for them.

Publishers Weekly

This utilitarian manual to orchids as houseplants succeeds admirably in its aim to provide a practical, concise, easy-to-use guide that is suitable for those with little or no experience of growing orchids. Johnson, owner of McBean's Orchids in Essex, England, a company that's been growing orchids since 1879, instructs readers on how to choose the right orchid for their home (taking into account temperature, light and humidity) and explores options for procuring the right orchid. Detailed advice on feeding, watering and repotting, as well as tips for dealing with pests and diseases further increase readers' chances of successfully growing these lovely but temperamental plants. Johnson moves on to giving hints for displaying orchids and addresses common concerns and simple solutions. Finally, she presents a substantial directory, which profiles hundreds of different kinds of orchids all capable of being grown in the average home by novice growers and provides instructions for meeting the individual needs of each species. Artful photos of vibrant orchids in bloom soften the writing's textbook-like tone. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The ever-increasing popularity of orchid growing has resulted in a spate of how-to books for beginners. This illustrated A-to-Z guide, by the owner of the renowned British nursery McBean's Orchids, features 85 orchid varieties recommended for indoor cultivation. As the focus is on plants that are "widely available" in U.K. nurseries, American readers will have a difficult time locating the featured plants not readily obtainable in the United States. Similarly, the appendix of "useful addresses" will be largely irrelevant to U.S. readers. The horticultural information (e.g., temperature, watering, feeding, after-bloom care) provided for each plant, though intended for the novice, is simplistically generic. The most useful part of this directory is the chapter on displaying orchids in the home environment. Recommended only as a supplement to more comprehensive beginner guides for American readers, such as the recently published Complete Guide to Orchids.-Brian Lym, City Coll. of San Francisco Lib. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.