Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids (eBook)

The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids

Philip Seaton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
144 Seiten
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-4281-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This inspirational book from Kews orchid experts reveals the easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today. Orchids come from the second largestplant family (with 28,000 members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but expert Philip Seatonchooses 60 of the best species to become permanent and happy members ofyour home. Through a combination of 12projects and easy to follow practical advice he shows how towelcomenew plants, to revive their flagging spirits as well as their basiccare and cultivation.He shows howto produceand train flowers, to collect and sow their seed, and how to plant and display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket. Find out when to water them, how to repot them and the ideal room and conditions that each orchid needs to thrive.Thecombination of botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and experienced growers to grow new species in many different ways. This book is from theKew Expertsseries, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include:Companion to Medicinal Plants,Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Herbs, Guide to Growing Roses,Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing VegetablesandGuide to Growing House Plants.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.1.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Kew Experts
• Reihe/Serie: Kew Experts
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: 2022 • Advice • Apartment • bark orchids • Beginners • Bletilla • books for plant lovers • Botanical • botanics • Bulbophyllum • Calanthe • caring for flowers • Cattleya • Chelsea Flower Show • Coelogyne • Cymbidium • Dactylorhiza • decorating • Dendrobium • disa • Dracula • easy to follow • Exotic • Experts • fathers day • flasks orhid seedlings • Garden • garden orchids • Gift • green fingers • growing from seed • grow your own • Guide • guide to growing bulbs • guide to growing fruit • guide to growing herbs • guide to growing trees • guide to growing vegetables • Hobby • Home • home growing • House • house plant • how to • Illustrated • Interiors • Kew • Kew Gardens • laelia • Lepanthes • making an orchid corsage • Masdevallia • Maxillaria • Miltonia • Mother's Day • mounting on tree fern • national gardening month • national garden month • national garden month • naturalised • new projects • new skill • Oncidium • Orchids • Outdoors • pan pleiones • Paphiopedilum • Phalaenopsis • plant care • Planting • planting in baskets • planting orchid meadow • plants • Pollination • Practical • present • repotting a cypripedium • repotting phalaenopsis • reviving Cymbidium • rhs • Royal Horticultural Society • saving orchids in the wild • setting up a terrarium • stanhopea • Step by Step • symbiotic germination • TIPS • Vanda • Vanilla • vegetative propagation • where to see orchids • window sill
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-4281-X / 071124281X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-4281-4 / 9780711242814