Orchids

Have you ever dreamed Of the Tales of the Arabian Nights and wished you might journey on that Magic Carpet to far-flung, romantic corners of the earth? It can be

Most people turn a deaf ear when orchids are suggested as ideal house plants. Yet anyone who can grow African violets or gloxinias indoors can grow orchids.  There is hardly

We were waiting for luncheon one day in April 1954 when a public relations man from Hollywood turned to me. “Your husband tells me you have successfully bloomed an orchid

You can grow orchids in your home. You need only a sunny window and a few minutes a week. You may doubt this—most people do at first—but thousands are already

If you could wake in the morning to see flower sprays like shimmering golden butterflies dancing in your window, would you? If you could pause during the day to be

As one snowflake does not constitute a blizzard, neither does successfully growing a single orchid makes one an orchid authority. Nevertheless, the experiences of one person and his method in

Eight years have passed since we first found out that anyone can grow orchids. It was my wife’s birthday, and I wanted to get her something special, so I stopped

I had always believed that orchids were exceedingly difficult to grow – tender, delicate, and temperamental – and so expensive as to be entirely out of reach of the average

Of course, you can grow orchids in a window! In the last few years, countless indoor gardeners have found to their delight that orchids will thrive and bloom in the home.

Each winter I grow tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, amaryllis, and African violets in my window. But most spectacular of all my indoor plants are the cattleya orchids—the popular florist’s corsage