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Thursday January 18, 2007

Orchids for Dummies...

When you think of Orchids hot steaming greenhouses come to mind and plants that refuse to flower despite the best care and attention you give them. This plant was given to my wife five years ago I reckon and it has only stopped flowering for one month since she got it. It sits in the kitchen on the window sill and just flowers. It gets a drop of water now and again and it just carries on flowering. The only thing to be careful of is the flower stem. Don't cut it off or prune it until you are really sure no more buds will appear. Very often when it finishes flowering on one bit it will branch a sub stem off and flower on that. So I almost wait until the stem goes brown before I even consider pruning it at all. These plants are available in most stores/garden centres.

( Jan 18 2007, 12:00:01 AM PST ) Permalink