In temperate regions of the world, orchids that are normally grown indoors or under glass can be placed outside for the summer growing season. A carefully chosen position will provide your plants with conditions that are nearer to those of their natural habitat.
Everyone has their own ideas and favourite colours, and their own preferred places in which to show off their treasured blooms. While in flower, and most orchids will last for several weeks, you can display your plants wherever they can be seen at their best. This may not be the best place for growing them in, but while in bloom a plant standing on its own with an attractive pot cover can be most dramatic.
If you also choose your orchids to bloom at different times of the year, you can have a plant in flower for most months of the year, ensuring that your favourite position is always filled with at least one plant in bloom.
Masdevallias and other smallgrowing related genera are shadedwellers that would be particularly unhappy placed in the open. In no time a rapid loss of their almost succulent leaves would result. Their culture is more specialized, and difficult enough to achieve in the greenhouse. Among the intermediate genera, those members of the vast Cattleya alliance do well in tropical gardens, but in temperate regions the foliage is prone to heavy marking by the excesses of wind and weather.
If you do not stand the plant on a damp base, you will need to remove it for watering and replace it after the pot has drained. The flowers of some orchids can also be highly scented, which adds immeasurably to their overall appeal.
The richly coloured flowers of Zygopetalum max-Mare, for example, are strongly scented. Brassavola cuculaw, which is sometimes called the ghost orchid, has drooping flowers of a ghostly appearance.
It blooms during the autumn and is highly fragrant at night. Well-chosen colour combinations can create beautiful effects, as is shown by this display of pale pink Phalaenopsis schilleriana and the deep pink P. Mad Milva. Orchids can be displayed in most rooms in the house.
The pale lemon Phalaenopsis Barbara Moler x Spitzberg looks perfect in a blue bathroom. A Phalaenopsis Mad Milva will do well as the centrepiece of an orchid display, provided it is kept out of direct sunlight. The flowers are delightful with cerise pink petals and sepals, with a darker pink lip.
Everyone has their own ideas and favourite colours, and their own preferred places in which to show off their treasured blooms. While in flower, and most orchids will last for several weeks, you can display your plants wherever they can be seen at their best. This may not be the best place for growing them in, but while in bloom a plant standing on its own with an attractive pot cover can be most dramatic.
If you also choose your orchids to bloom at different times of the year, you can have a plant in flower for most months of the year, ensuring that your favourite position is always filled with at least one plant in bloom.
Masdevallias and other smallgrowing related genera are shadedwellers that would be particularly unhappy placed in the open. In no time a rapid loss of their almost succulent leaves would result. Their culture is more specialized, and difficult enough to achieve in the greenhouse. Among the intermediate genera, those members of the vast Cattleya alliance do well in tropical gardens, but in temperate regions the foliage is prone to heavy marking by the excesses of wind and weather.
If you do not stand the plant on a damp base, you will need to remove it for watering and replace it after the pot has drained. The flowers of some orchids can also be highly scented, which adds immeasurably to their overall appeal.
The richly coloured flowers of Zygopetalum max-Mare, for example, are strongly scented. Brassavola cuculaw, which is sometimes called the ghost orchid, has drooping flowers of a ghostly appearance.
It blooms during the autumn and is highly fragrant at night. Well-chosen colour combinations can create beautiful effects, as is shown by this display of pale pink Phalaenopsis schilleriana and the deep pink P. Mad Milva. Orchids can be displayed in most rooms in the house.
The pale lemon Phalaenopsis Barbara Moler x Spitzberg looks perfect in a blue bathroom. A Phalaenopsis Mad Milva will do well as the centrepiece of an orchid display, provided it is kept out of direct sunlight. The flowers are delightful with cerise pink petals and sepals, with a darker pink lip.
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Garden Orchids suitable for growing in a small growing case are Coelogyne corymbosa, Cirrhopetalum guttulatum, Dendrobium cuthbertsonii, Encyclia polybulbon, and Ludisia discolor.
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