Taylor's Guide to Orchids: More Than 300 Orchids, Photographed and Described, for Beginning to Expert Gardeners (Taylor's Guides) [Vinyl Bound]

judywhite (Author)

Book Description

Series: Taylor's Guides | Publication Date: April 15, 1996

One of every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Interest in growing orchids has risen dramatically in recent years, and many new varieties that can be grown in the home without a greenhouse have been developed. Research biologist and full-time garden writer Judy White now brings her expertise--and her stunning photographs--to this much needed book for the expanding world of home orchid growers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market." Garden Design

About the Author

Judy White is a garden writer with a love for growing orchids.

Product Details

• Vinyl Bound: 400 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395677262
• ISBN-13: 978-0395677261
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

judywhite is author and photographer of the award-winning Taylor's Guide to Orchids (Houghton Mifflin 1996), as well as Bloom-Again Orchids (Timber Press 2009), which was awarded a 2010 Garden Writers Association Media Award for Book Writing. Visit judywhite's Web site at www.gardenphotos.com. A past trustee of the American Orchid Society (AOS), she has earned its highest prize for writing about orchid culture, as well as the AOS Silver Medal for outstanding service to the orchid community.

Her photography has graced many books and publications, and has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. Garden, plant, and orchid images can be licensed from her stock photography company at www.GardenPhotos.com.

A former research biologist and past editor-in-chief of one of the world's first mega-gardening Web sites, Time Life's Virtual Garden, judywhite began her writing life as a humor columnist for Seventeen Magazine. She is married to British garden writer Graham Rice. The pair divides their time between the eastern United States and Northamptonshire, England. She is proud to say she has killed orchids on both sides of the Atlantic.

Visit her Web site at www.gardenphotos.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

98 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best orchid book on the market!, December 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Orchids: More Than 300 Orchids, Photographed and Described, for Beginning to Expert Gardeners (Taylor's Guides) (Vinyl Bound)

Afraid to grow orchids? Fear no more, because this book explains everything we need to know, from how orchids grow in nature (mostly on sides of trees!) and what we have to do to make them happy on the windowsill.

judywhite is well-known in the orchid world for her wonderful way of explaining the mysteries behind how to grow them, and this book, which she also photographed (there are 300 gorgeous color photos depicting every genus in the encyclopedia section) is not only well-written, it is well-organized and covers everything from pest control to potting materials (the best resource on this subject in particular that I've ever come across) to light to getting the darned things to bloom again. The second half of the book is the encyclopedia section, describing not only species, but also man-made intergeneric hybrids, with a lot of information you can't find anywhere else in one place.

I definitely agree with others that if you only get one orchid book - whether you are just a beginner or truly advanced - this is *the* orchid book!

73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Is a Must!!, November 11, 2000

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This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Orchids: More Than 300 Orchids, Photographed and Described, for Beginning to Expert Gardeners (Taylor's Guides) (Vinyl Bound)

I love this little book and use it all the time. It has so much information packed into it's compact format. The color photos are beautiful and show great detail. The basic orchid growing information is helpful without being too technical and the specifics about each orchid are very useful in deciding if that orchid you just have to have will really stand a chance in your own growing situation.

As Orchids host at BellaOnline.com, I highly recommend this book to all orchid lovers at any level of experience.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE orchid book to buy!, March 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Orchids: More Than 300 Orchids, Photographed and Described, for Beginning to Expert Gardeners (Taylor's Guides) (Vinyl Bound)

Beautiful color photos and detailed growing information...mineis heavily highlighted and dogeared as I use it as a constantreference. The BEST part is the dimensional description next to the photos telling ACTUAL PLANT AND FLOWER SIZE, as we all know how deceiving photos can be!