This is where things get tricky. Growing orchids from seed requires specialized conditions and a sterile environment. It is a ...

Growing orchids can be easy if you know what they need. With proper care, an orchid can be in bloom for months each year and can live indefinitely. Here is how to ensure they bloom again ...

Sari Lampinen, a landscape and garden designer, shared an unusual way she encourages her orchids to bloom again and again.

Cool-growing orchids are more challenging to cultivate at home since they tend to require winter temperatures of 39-42ºF and cool summer nights of 50-53ºF to promote blooming,' explains Halina ...

Inside Hershey Gardens’ conservatory, there are orchids big enough to fill a van, orchids small enough to search for with a magnifying glass, old orchids, new orchids, black orchids and white ...

Houseplants are more likely to flower in spring, and you can ensure your orchid or peace lily produces bigger blooms if you ...

ORCHIDS get a bad press. The absolute divas of the gardening world – they’re all showy and stunning, until they don’t get what they want. Then they have a strop and die ...

The following is a video slideshow with more photos of orchids. The slideshow comes to us courtesy of our sister paper, the Chaska Herald. To ...

Some orchids have evolved a unique parasitic lifestyle, abandoning full reliance on photosynthesis in favor of extracting nutrients from fungi. Oreorchis patens serves as a fascinating case, capable ...

At the time, the orchid represented an entire day’s salary for Jerry Fischer – $25 – but he didn’t care. He’d never seen a flower so intriguing. As ...