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1. Repot the Orchid. Once your orchid is done blooming, repot it. “I recommend repotting an orchid every two years,” Kondrat says. If your orchid came from the store potted in sphagnum moss ...
Find out how to prune orchids of all types, and when to do your pruning to encourage fresh growth and more blooming.
Bletilla striata is the most common form found in the nursery trade and is often labeled simply as 'Hardy Orchid' or 'Chinese Ground Orchid' and is quite inexpensive. This beautiful and hardy deciduous orchid has the distinction of being one of the first orchids in cultivation in England dating from around 1794.
This guide with expert tips on how to repot an orchid and how to transplant an orchid into the right container will help your plant grow and thrive for years.
Then in the late spring to early summer all the leaves fall off and the orchid blooms. When the orchid flowers, no more leaves grow for the duration of the bloom (June - September). The flowering stalk grows 10-65 cm tall, standing erect. The stem is herbaceous, glabrous, and leafless. [12] An individual T. discolor can have 2-5 subterranean ...
Rhynchostylis retusa (also called foxtail orchid) is an orchid, belonging to the Vanda alliance. The inflorescence is a pendant raceme, consisting of more than 100 pink-spotted white flowers. The plant has a short, stout, creeping stem carrying up to 12, curved, fleshy, deeply channeled, keeled, retuse apically leaves and blooms on an axillary ...
Coelogyne cristata has many short stems, which holds the fragrance inside the flower. The petals are up to 8 centimetres (3.1 inches) in diameter and snow white with a yellow spot on the lip. This orchid blooms in the late winter, when the snow begins to melt. Its leaves are deep green and narrow, between 10 and 15 centimeters (3.9 and 5.9 ...
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