| Botanical Orchids and how to Grow Them |
| Jack Kramer |
| Garden Art Press (1998) |
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| Summary: The names of those early orchid hunters are preserved today in the Latin names by which the orchids they discovered are still known. In the last two decades orchids have been subject to extensive hybridisation in the search for novelty and ever more fantastic colours and shapes; indeed thousands upon thousands of hybrids have appeared. Jack Kramer concentrates on the original botanical orchids as they appeared in nature and their habitats. These orchids had waned in popularity with the introduction of the new hybrids and were also at risk in many cases of extinction as their natural habitats were despoiled and ravaged by man. Fortunately, new cloning techniques have rescued such endangered species from oblivion. This book addresses the technical needs of the novice orchid enthusiast in choosing species appropriate to the climate and facilities available, as well as guiding the beginner in the basics of orchid cultivation. ' The lesson to be learned is that you can successfully raise orchids as lo |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 222 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| LCC: SB409 .K687 1999 |
| OCLC: 39088636 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: The names of those early orchid hunters are preserved today in the Latin names by which the orchids they discovered are still known. In the last two decades orchids have been subject to extensive hybridisation in the search for novelty and ever more fantastic colours and shapes; indeed thousands upon thousands of hybrids have appeared. Jack Kramer concentrates on the original botanical orchids as they appeared in nature and their habitats. These orchids had waned in popularity with the introduction of the new hybrids and were also at risk in many cases of extinction as their natural habitats were despoiled and ravaged by man. Fortunately, new cloning techniques have rescued such endangered species from oblivion. This book addresses the technical needs of the novice orchid enthusiast in choosing species appropriate to the climate and facilities available, as well as guiding the beginner in the basics of orchid cultivation. ' The lesson to be learned is that you can successfully raise orchids as lo |
| Genre: Orchid culture |
| Number of Pages: 222 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9/344 |
| LCC: SB409.K687 1999 |
| OCLC: 39088636 |
| ISBN: 9781870673259 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: October 6, 2023 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: • A complete, up-to-date resource on the best and most easily grown orchid species, hybrids, and cultivars readily available in North America. • Inspires gardeners to have confidence to grow these elegant plants successfully. • Step-by-step instructions show how to select, pot, stake, and care for orchids. • Expert advice to ensure healthy orchids by controlling light, temperature, humidity, pests, and diseases. • Invaluable resource for both novice and experienced orchid lovers. |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 224 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| LCC: SB409 .C66 2005 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: Orchid lovers of all levels will delight in this unique approach to selecting new and exciting varieties of fragrant orchids. More than 100 different orchids are profiled here, with exquisite images of each, and salient details are included for another 355 enticing varieties. Profiles include cultivation information and detailed notes on each fragrance, which can range from elegant and sophisticated to downright pungent, from fruity and spicy to medicinal, from light and fresh to heavy and intoxicating. With some 20,000 fragrant orchids available today, orchid enthusiasts will appreciate this first-ever guide to choosing, growing, and showcasing orchids with the right look and most enjoyable scents, including cinnamon, chocolate, lemon, and vanilla. |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 200 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| LCC: SB406 .F67 2005 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: May 9, 2022 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: growing orchids The complete practical guide to orchids and their cultivation An inspirational encyclopedia of orchids, with guidance on the best orchids to choose Clear, practical advice on growing and displaying orchids indoors, under glass and outdoors Everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, with step-by-step information on potting and mounting orchids; propagation; feeding, watering and light levels; and dealing with pests and diseases An easy-to-use Orchid Directory of over 200 fabulous orchids, with photographs of each orchid and vital information on habitat, size, flowering time and growing requirements Over 600 specially commissioned photographs. |
| Genre: Orchid culture |
| Number of Pages: 256 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| OCLC: 228459466 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: Whether your garden is a windowsill, a basement, a greenhouse, or a plot of land, Home Orchid Growing is the only reference book you'll ever need to cultivate one of natures most varied and fascinating plants. In the past forty years, it has become the best-known and most authoritative work in its field, and even gardeners who still have an original copy of this classic work will find much to inspire and delight them in this revised and updated fourth edition. |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 376 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.93415 |
| OCLC: 30575893 |
| ISBN: 9780671763275 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: October 11, 2022 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK  A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.  In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay.Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.  Praise for The Orchid Thief  “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review  “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times  “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World  “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe  “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal |
| Genre: Biography & Autobiography |
| Number of Pages: 320 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 584/.409759 |
| OCLC: 43319028 |
| ISBN: 9780449003718 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: July 8, 2023 |
| Tags: Beginners and Florida Orchids |
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| Summary: Presents the appearance and needs of more than one hundred orchid species, including the newest varieties, and discusses where orchids grow in the wild, the conditions required, and how to grow orchids in a hothouse |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 96 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.93415 |
| OCLC: 23117059 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: Orchids have always had the reputation of being difficult to grow, and expensive to own. Orchids For Everyone dispels these myths and provides practical and useful advice even for the amateur grower. Heating, watering, composts, propagation, simple breeding and a guide to the major groups of orchids are among the subjects covered, making this book a must for new and experienced orchidists alike. |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 208 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.933 |
| OCLC: 37704262 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Summary: Photographs of all currently accepted Phalaenopsis species with a brief description. |
| Number of Pages: 87 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| LCC: QK495.O64 H54 2015 |
| OCLC: 928633240 |
| ISBN: 9780692373910 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: August 8, 2022 |
| Tags: Beginners and Genera Specific |
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| Summary: Some people will do anything for beauty or fame "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination.."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida "A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous "Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal Every year more than 100,000 people visit Sarasota's Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, in large part to see its vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. But the most famous orchid in Selby's history--the one hailed as the most significant find in a century--isn't on display. It's the one that led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and headlines around the country. Discovered in Peru in 2002, the Phragmipedium kovachii quickly became the most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market and otherwise rational people bent rules and broke laws in their obsessive quest to possess it. Award-winning journalist Craig Pittman covered this fascinating story, as it happened, for the St. Petersburg Times, Florida's largest newspaper. In this enthralling account, he unravels the tangled web of smugglers, scientists, and federal investigators to reveal who the real criminals were in this sordid affair. He also shines a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--treaties that often protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. With candid interviews from nearly everyone involved in the case, The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame, with the desire to own a rare flower--that even the possibility of going to prison will not deter their risking everything. Craig Pittman writes about environmental issues for the St. Petersburg Times. He is the coauthor of Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss and author of Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species. |
| Genre: History |
| Number of Pages: 299 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 584/.409759 |
| LCC: QK495.O64 P52 2012 |
| OCLC: 748330850 |
| ISBN: 9780813039749 |
| Reading Status: Finished |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: August 8, 2022 |
| Tags: Beginners and Florida Orchids |
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| Summary: For beginners, experienced growers, and experts, this reader-friendly book tells everything you need to know to grow these exotic plants. 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. Readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the best orchids for their situation - 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 orchild, 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 past fifteen years. This is the book orchid fans have been waiting for. |
| Genre: Gardening |
| Number of Pages: 260 |
| Language: English |
| Dewey Decimal: 635.9344 |
| LCC: SB409.A3 C85 2004 |
| OCLC: 56795251 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Quantity: 1 copies |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |
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| Dewey Decimal: 635.93415 |
| Reading Status: Unread |
| Date Added: December 7, 2021 |
| Tags: Beginners |