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Learn About Advanced Orchid Care
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Summary: Advanced orchid care can result in gorgeous, long-living flowers. Learn more in this free educational video series.
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...read more
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 over 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 orchid types and varieties. William Hutchinson teaches you all about epidendrums, dendrobiums, oncidiums, cymbidiums, and more in the following clips. He even offers tips on hybrids and mini varieties.
"WILLIAM HUTCHINSON: We're going to talk briefly about the laws and rules regulating how orchids get their name. And we're going to look at some of the various big genera of orchids that we grow and are used in our breeding programs. Some of these are very unique, some of them are very strange but they all have to follow the rules of the International Nomenclature Committee. We're going to look at the Cattleya Orchid and the Cattleya alliance, those orchids which have similar growth patterns and which could be interbred with the Cattleya. We're going to look at the Dendrobium and the multiplicity of multiple forms that we can find throughout the world. We're going to look at other plants that come from the high mountains which have been bred so you can't believe the size of the flowers. And then we're going to look at some of the strange ones that come from the cloud forest and actually become the real aficionados dream plant to grow."
eHow Article: Learn About Advanced Orchid Care
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