Best Gardening & Horticulture Orchids

Perfect for beginners as well as orchid experts looking for new tricks, The Orchid Whisperer provides everything readers need to know to keep healthy orchids that will flower again and again! Rogers' language is engaging and humorous, and strikes the right balance between being easy to read and needing a science degree to understand.He presents plenty ofeasy-to-understand advice to get novice growers on the road to success.Rogers even adds a chapter on decorating with orchids to challenge evenexperienced growers. The information is clear, concise and easy to assimilate, fromwhere to find the best bargains, to how to help your orchid survive theride home in your car (I'd estimated that 10 per cent of orchids boughtby novices never make it home alive and another 10 per cent suffersignificant damage").

Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii— a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.” — Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.” — The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.” — Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.” — The Wall Street Journal. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. Perfect for anyone who wants to know a little bit about a lot of things, this quirky, quintessential New Yorker story pulls back the curtain on a community of people who are driven by a passion to collect and cultivate some very exotic plants.

With improved tissue-culture techniques making orchids more affordable, and the Internet making them readily available to consumers, growing orchids is more popular than ever: membership in the American Orchid Society has more than doubled in the last fifteen years. The first portion covers basic orchid information: detailed guides to growing them on a windowsill, under lights, in a greenhouse or outdoors, and practical advice on meeting their requirements for light, temperature, humidity and air movement in each of those settings. His lively text, with its clear instructions, will make orchid growing as irresistible to readers as it is to Cullina. Cullina's informative guide, with 300 color photographs, tells what to look for in buying your first orchid. Each entry contains information on where the plant can be grown (at a window, under lights, or in a greenhouse), the level of skill it requires to grow the plant (beginner, experienced, or expert), and lists a good introductory species that would be easy to grow.

You've probably already considered container gardening - but what about vertical gardening with vining plants that can grow up the wall or using a vertical aeroponics gardening system that can grow 20+ plants in a 4 square foot area? Also included is a list of the 15 best indoor plants for cleaning, purifying and removing toxins from polluted city air. Even in the heart of Manhattan you can breath fresh, pure air thanks to these incredible plants that have been studied by NASA and proven to remove pollutants like benzene, formaldehyde and Volatice Orcanic Compounds (VOCs). In the past, aeroponics and hydroponics systems were only available to the wealthy and those with extensive knowledge of agriculture and hydroponics. Want To Grow An Urban Garden In Your Community? Will Cook is the international bestselling author of Urban Gardening, Indoor Gardening and Container Gardening.

Rose to the Occasion includes. * old illustrations of roses in bloom, plus historical background on each flower. * down-to-earth wisdom on how to plant, grow, and prune roses. * the in and out of fertilizing roses to get the lushest foliage and best blooms. * advice on choosing the right rose for your garden, as well as many easy-growing varieties. * the latest on organic pest control and fungicide use in the rose garden. * hardy, tough old roses that can take whatever Mother Nature throws at them. * and general garden maintenance help that you can use anywhere in the garden. If you love The Rose Bible by Rayford Clayton Reddell, or books by David Austin, or books like Right Rose, Right Place; or Everyday Roses: How to Grow Knock Out® and Other Easy-Care Garden Roses; or The Organic Rose Garden, and if you like garden books leavened with humor -- then this book is for you. The Kindle version of this book includes. * stunning photographs of roses in bloom, plus historical background on each. * down-to-earth wisdom on how to plant, grow, and prune roses. * the in and out of fertilizing roses. * advice on choosing the right rose for your garden, as well as many easy-growing varieties. * the latest on organic pest control and fungicide use in the rose garden. * and general garden maintenance help that you can use anywhere in the garden. I wanted tough roses, roses that took heat and drought andbug attacks and zombie apocalypses with aplomb and would still come outlooking great and covered with scented blossoms. Rose breeders, most notably David Austin, were crossing modern varietieswith old varieties and to get roses that combined the best of the newand the old. Other breeders were creating roses that were tough anddisease-resistant, such as the 'Knock-Out' landscape rose, which now you see everywhere.I planted some antique roses,and they looked great. The rose garden wasstarting to look spiffy, even though I still had to take roses out every year due to the rose rosette virus.

Create the flower garden of your dreams. The Hills are skilled instructors in basic techniques-a strength they use well in Part I. Easy-to-read text, a welcoming magazine-like layout and step-by-step photographic guides provide a solid foundation in flower garden fundamentals. Although there are entire books devoted to any one of the many subjects covered in the Hills' "bible," comprehensive resources that provide a thorough overview of essential gardening topics are always welcome. After showcasing nearly two dozen specialty gardens, from fragrance to foundation, shade to seaside, herbs to hummingbirds, the Hills provide an alphabetical directory of more than 260 flowering shrubs, vines, bulbs, annuals, and perennials that lists critical information such as bloom time, size, site, and pests in a concise at-a-glance format.

Create the flower garden of your dreams. The Hills are skilled instructors in basic techniques-a strength they use well in Part I. Easy-to-read text, a welcoming magazine-like layout and step-by-step photographic guides provide a solid foundation in flower garden fundamentals. Although there are entire books devoted to any one of the many subjects covered in the Hills' "bible," comprehensive resources that provide a thorough overview of essential gardening topics are always welcome. After showcasing nearly two dozen specialty gardens, from fragrance to foundation, shade to seaside, herbs to hummingbirds, the Hills provide an alphabetical directory of more than 260 flowering shrubs, vines, bulbs, annuals, and perennials that lists critical information such as bloom time, size, site, and pests in a concise at-a-glance format.