Home Gardener's Orchids: Selecting, Growing, Displaying, Improving and Maintaining Orchids (Creative Homeowner) (Specialist Guide)

David Squire

ISBN 10: 1580117473 / ISBN 13: 9781580117470

Published by Creative Homeowner, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home Gardener's Orchids: Selecting, Growing, Displaying, Improving and Maintaining Orchids (Creative Homeowner) (Specialist Guide)
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580117473
• ISBN 13: 9781580117470
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Home Gardener's Orchids is the essential guide to choosing and growing orchids successfully in any climate. Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, and provide all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish.

Dozens of dazzling photographs showcase many of these exotic blooms, while detailed sections discuss how to raise them indoors and in growing cases, as well as in greenhouses, and give plenty of advice on watering, misting, composts, heating and cooling, repotting, and dealing with pests and diseases. This remarkable illustrated A-to-Z features important tips for every orchid, and includes notes on whether it's easy to grow and where to grow it, what temperature it needs, and much more.

About the Author

David Squire has worked for many years as a gardening writer and editor. He has contributed to numerous gardening magazines and is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books. His books include four titles in the new Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series (Fox Chapel Publishing) plus The Scented Garden (Orion) which won the "Quill and Trowel Award" of the Garden Writers of America. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. In 2005, this collection of plants was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore, and customs.