How to Grow Orchids: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Orchids

If you would love to have this spectacular plant in your home, but thought that they were too difficult to grow, then this book will provide you with all the help you need to get started.

You will discover which orchids are the easiest for a beginner to grow, and then learn the steps you need to take to keep your orchid alive, healthy and blooming.

Chapters include:
Where to Start: Discover the Orchid Family
What an Orchid Needs: Light, Heat and Humidity
More Orchid Needs: Water, Fertiliser and Rest
Moving On: Re-Potting Materials
Want More Plants? Propagation
What Can Go Wrong? Pests and Diseases

This book provides anyone new to growing orchids with the essential information to get them started with confidence.

Fran Barnwell’s philosophy is to provide simple and straightforward advice for anyone starting out with gardening, whether that is indoors or outdoors, with a good-sized garden or just a window ledge. How to Grow Orchids is the second book in The New to Gardening Series.