Wherever you live in the world, you can grow orchids in your garden. From lady's slippers in boreal forests to dendrobiums hanging from tropical palms, orchids provide color and elegance unmatched by any other garden flower. Although it may sound too good to be true, many orchids are actually low-maintenance plants for various backyard habitats — and don't need special pots or greenhouses. In this exciting book, Robert Friend shows gardeners how to introduce orchids into the garden by attaching them to trees, fixing them to rocks and walls, or planting them directly into garden beds. He details more than 500 orchid choices for every garden situation and supplies practical cultivation information. The author draws on a lifetime of experience with orchids to explain how to choose the right orchid for a given climate and how to landscape with orchids in different types of gardens from tropical to cool-climate areas, from large acreages to small courtyard gardens. Growing Orchids in Your Garden offers an array of dramatic ideas for every reader.
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"A boon to all California gardeners that wonder what to do with orchids once all the windows in the house are full."—John Bagnasco, Garden Compass, April 2005 (John Bagnasco Garden Compass )
"This beautifully illustrated guide by an Australian orchid expert explains how epiphytes can be grown on trees, lithophytes on rocks and walls, and terrestrials in the ground."—Library Journal, December 2, 2004 (Library Journal )
"Recommended for any library serving gardeners or horticultural students and researchers."—Sarah Williams, E-Streams, September 2005 (Sarah Williams E-Streams )
"This beautifully illustrated guide by an Australian orchid expert explains how epiphytes can be grown on trees, lithophytes on rocks and walls, and terrestrials in the ground."—Library Journal, December 2, 2004 (Library Journal )
"Recommended for any library serving gardeners or horticultural students and researchers."—Sarah Williams, E-Streams, September 2005 (Sarah Williams E-Streams )
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Wherever you live in the world, you can grow orchids in your garden. Although it may sound too good to be true, many orchids are actually low-maintenance plants for various backyard habitats and don't need special pots or greenhouses. In this exciting book, Robert Friend shows gardeners how to introduce orchids into the garden by attaching them to trees, fixing them to rocks and walls, or planting them directly into garden beds. He details more than 500 orchid choices for every garden situation and supplies practical cultivation information.
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I purchased this book in response to a review in "Orchids" the journal of the American Orchid Society. That magazine reviewed another book, "Hardy Perennial Orchids," by Bill Mathis. In the review they noted that this book is much more comprehensive. That statement is true to a very narrow degree - it mentions more genera of orchids. This book for the most part considers the arrangement of tropical epiphytic orchids in tropical gardens or temporarily set outside during the summer. Thus, the information contained in it is contained in any general book about orchid culture. This book does contain an occasional paragraph, scattered here and there, about hardy terrestrial orchids that may be incorporated into gardens, but without any information about "how to do it." If the reader is relatively new to the keeping of tropical orchids, then "Growing Orchids in the Garden" is a fairly good introduction (to growing them in the house or setting them in the garden for the summer), although there are better general introductions. If the vast majority of US or European readers truly want to grow orchids in their gardens (and there are many that are both easy and magnificient in appearance) then a book like that by Mathis is what you are looking for. It gives detailed instructions, which this books does not cover at all.
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The value of this book depends upon the location of your garden,
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The world of orchids can be divided into tropical, sub-tropical (usually below 30 degrees latitude), and temperate. This book is mostly about growing orchids outdoors in the tropical and subtropical areas of the United States, though some space is devoted to mostly frost free areas above 30 degrees. And just a small amount is devoted to the temperate regions.
So you might be disappointed if you are not located in Florida (especially south of Gainsville), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or Southern California. But if your garden is in one of the subtropical areas you will be delighted. It is not a big book for the price, but is well written, nicely illustrated, and contains much practical advice. For example the author discusses which types of trees are best for which epiphytes, where to place them on the tree, how to attach them, how much optimal sunlight and so forth. Good book, but not so valuable if you live in Minnesota.
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Inspiring book on orchid growing.,
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This is the best book I have found on growing orchids in the garden. It dispels the myth that orchids are difficult, fussy creatures,... only for the experts.It is very comprehensively written, with lavish illustrations & is filled with helpful & inspiring advice.
A must have book for the keen gardeners library, or for anybody who loves orchids. I love this book & cannot recommend it too highly.
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Orchids that grow naturally on trees are known as epiphytes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lithophytic orchids, clustered bulbs, orchid gardener, growing orchids, monopodial orchids, epiphytic orchids, water orchids, unglazed terracotta, terrestrial orchids, potting medium, orchid hunter, orchid growers, temperate gardens, potting media, hybrid orchids, companion plants, orchid roots, small grower, orchid species, intergeneric hybrids, other orchids, massed plantings, queen palm, planting medium, orchids growing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Orchid Review, New South Wales, Courtesy Dick Cavender, Courtesy Richard Manuel, New Zealand, North America, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New York, Courtesy Les Nesbitt, Cymbidium Natural, Dendrobium Natural, New Caledonia New!
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lithophytic orchids, clustered bulbs, orchid gardener, growing orchids, monopodial orchids, epiphytic orchids, water orchids, unglazed terracotta, terrestrial orchids, potting medium, orchid hunter, orchid growers, temperate gardens, potting media, hybrid orchids, companion plants, orchid roots, small grower, orchid species, intergeneric hybrids, other orchids, massed plantings, queen palm, planting medium, orchids growing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Orchid Review, New South Wales, Courtesy Dick Cavender, Courtesy Richard Manuel, New Zealand, North America, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New York, Courtesy Les Nesbitt, Cymbidium Natural, Dendrobium Natural, New Caledonia New!
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- Himalayan Journals: Notes of a Naturalist (Two Volume set) by J.D. Hooker on 4 pages
- Life Above the Jungle Floor by Donald Perry on page 39, and Back Matter
- Three Visits To Madagascar by William Ellis on page 42, and Back Matter
- The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species: 3rd Edition by Helmut Bechtel in Back Matter
- Growing Orchids (Cassell Good Gardening Guides) by I. D. James in Back Matter
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