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Orchids
Orchids from epiphytic, terrestrial and cool-growing groups.
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Bee Orchid
Ophrys apifera
How to grow bee orchid, Ophrys apifera. Its flower mimics a female bee down to the scent, it self-pollinates in Britain where that bee is scarce, and leaving a chalk lawn unmown does more than deliberate planting ever will.
Blue Vanda
Vanda coerulea
Practical guidance for growing blue vanda, Vanda coerulea, including basket culture, bare roots, daily watering, strong light, a cool winter rest, and the true blue flower colour.
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Cooktown Orchid
Dendrobium bigibbum
How to grow Cooktown orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum. Healthy canes with no flowers usually mean too little light or too shallow a dry rest, it flowers on leafless older canes, and it takes almost no cold below 12 deg C.
Crimson Cattleya
Cattleya labiata
Practical guidance for growing crimson cattleya, Cattleya labiata, including pseudobulbs, the autumn flowering trigger, bark mix, bright light, and how to avoid bud blast.
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Pink Lady's Slipper
Cypripedium acaule
How to grow pink lady's slipper, Cypripedium acaule. It depends on a soil fungus no garden bed reliably has, a wild-dug plant almost always dies within a season or two, and genuine nursery-propagated stock is rare.
Pyramidal Orchid
Anacamptis pyramidalis
How to grow pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis. Its flowers clamp pollen onto a moth's tongue to guarantee cross-pollination, it colonises disturbed chalk ground faster than most wild orchids, and a bought plant rarely establishes in a border.
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