Additional Information

• Growing Outdoors and in Windows
• Growing Under Lights
• How and Why of Water
• Humidity and Air Movement
• Light, the Key to Successful Blooming
• Orchid Culture; the Proper Approach
• Potting Media Reviewed
• Preparing for Your First Orchids
• Starting an Orchid Collection
• Temperature Ranges

• AOS Awards Index (Fisher-Bishop, PDF, 7mb) §
• ASCOHR - Meeting of the RHS Advisory Subcommittee on Orchid Hybrid Registration, May 20, 2009
• Bifoliate Cattleyas
• Brief Look at Polyploidy
• Cattleya, Queen of the Orchids
• Ecological Habitat of Cattleyas
• Growing Healthy Orchids
• Harvesting Times of Seed Capsules Green Pod Culture
• Hereditary Influences of the Cattleya Alliance
• Hints on Potting
• How Are Orchids Propagated?
• Intergeneric Hybrids
• Killing Orchids: Dealing with the Inevitable
• MSU Fertilizer
• Oncidium luteopurpureum Complex
• Orchid Clock
• Orchid Nutrition for Winter
• Orchids as Bonsai
• Orchids of Viet Nam, part 3;
  L. Averyanov (PDF, 10.2mb)§
• Ozette Coralroot;
  rare native saprophyte
• Phalaenopsis; The Genus
• Phalaenopsis for Summer (PDF, 208kb)
• Photographing Tiny Orchids
• Pleurothallid Perfumes
• Pollinating the Vanilla Flower
• Preparing Orchids for Winter
• Pollinating Cattleya Flowers
• Sophronitis to Cattleya Transfers
• Time-lapse Videos of Orchids; How to Make Them
Tolumnia Golden Sunset
• Transporting Blooming Orchids

• Cool-Growing Orchids
• Warm-Growing Orchids
• Green-flowered Orchids
• March-flowering Orchids
• White-flowered Orchids

General Orchid Articles

Here we have assembled topics that may overlap other sections but do not have a specific focus on orchid culture. For now that includes articles on orchid habitats and conservation, taxonomy, breeding, travel, shows, judging, personalities, history, art, photography tips and other topics that do not fit into the culture categories at left. If you are looking for reading that may inspire or enlighten, you may find it here. We have future plans for developing parts of the website that will specically address some of these topics but until that time you will find assorted content here.