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Title: Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin A must have reference book for new orchid enthusiasts. |
| This was one of the first orchid books that I purchased when I became interest in growing orchids as a hobby. I still use it as a quick reference. I highly recommend this book if you are new to growing orchids. |
| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin Understanding Orchids. |
This book has all the information that I need to successfully grow orchids.
It is the ideal book for all orchid enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced orchid grower.
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| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin very practical information |
| This book has alot of practical information and has much more detailed culture information about many different orchid families, also has information about small orchid families that I have not found in any other book about orchids.This book also gives step by step instructions on how to repot or divide several different types of orchids including paphiopediliums and Phrags. |
| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin Great book, lots of good ideas and beautiful pictures.... |
| I am an amateur orchid grower and have read a variety of books on the subject. So far, this is the best book I encountered and the most comprehensive. Not only that, it is a work of art, printed on high quality of paper. The pictures are outstanding and so is the carefully written text. This book is also just loaded with inexpensive ideas on various small projects that you can do to improve your results. If you are going to get one book on orchids, this should be it! |
| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin The best |
| I believe that this is the best book out there on orchids. Mr Cullina covers the important and often allusive culture issues confronted in growing orchids in real depth. He provides thoughtful, comon sense explanations for his reccomendations that go way beyond those found in other books I have read on the subject. The second half of the book details the cultural requirements and rates the difficulty level of 100 species of potential interest to growers with experience levels from beginner to expert. Much more than a coffee table book, Understanding Orchids is a valuable reference that belongs in every orchid enthuiast's library. |
| Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants by Houghton Mifflin Product Description |
| Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint the species within a particular genus that are the best ones to start with. Once you select your orchid, William Cullina's authoritative guide explains what to do to keep it alive and healthy. Featuring more than two hundred color photographs, Understanding Orchids covers everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, whatever your level of interest or experience. 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. This is the book orchid fans have been waiting for. |
