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How to Grow Orchids

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Growing orchids indoors can provide great décor for your home. Learn more in this free educational video series.

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Summary: Orchids have some of the most exotic and beautiful flowers in the plant world. They boast of at least 25,000 officially recognized individual species, and some botanists count the number even higher. With such a natural diversity and beauty, orchids have garnered much attention from the world horticultural community. Amateur gardeners and flower enthusiasts are constantly cross pollinating species, and have, to date, created more than 100,000 hybrid orchids. Orchid cultivation happens on a global scale, with favorable climate conditions regulating regions of high or low growth.

Aside from the aesthetic qualities that orchids are famous for, they provide at least one well known nutritional benefit. The vanilla bean is the fruit of an orchid plant, and is considered to be an important, valuable crop in many areas.

This free video series gives you expert knowledge on growing orchids indoors. Our expert teaches you all about many varieties of orchids and how to grow them successfully in your home. In this series, he shares his experience growing orchids on bark, osmundine, sphagnum and sponge rock. Our expert also introduces orchids from various regions so you know just how to recreate their natural environments!

About the Expert

Expert: Bill has been working with orchids since 1951 but is the first to admit that he is still learning. He graduated from Stockbridge School of Agriculture in Floriculture/Horticulture. He then completed degrees in biology and microbiology at Clark University in Worcester, MA. He has a doctorate in Botany from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been the President of the Amherst Orchid Society and regularly writes a question and answer column for their newsletter.

He may be reached at wa.hutchinson@comcast.net413-253-7036 52 Jeffrey Lane, Amherst, MA 01002.

The greenhouse is open Saturdays by appointment.

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