Growing Orchids in Your Garden
Editorial Reviews
Review
Sarah Williams E-Streams : Recommended for any library serving gardeners or horticultural students and researchers.
Library Journal : This beautifully illustrated guide by an Australian orchid expert explains how epiphytes can be grown on trees, lithophytes on rocks and walls, and terrestrials in the ground.
Greg Asbagh Let's Talk Plants : For tropical aficionados wishing to integrate orchids into their gardens, Growing Orchids delivers on every front and, as it has in my book collection, will become one of your most valued references.
Marge Howard-Jones California Garden : Color photos enhance the descriptions, as do screened sidebars offering tidbits of history, anecdotes, quotations, and other short incidentals to intrigue the casual reader.
Nancy Brachey Charlotte Observer : Excellent photographs support an informative, easy-to-read text that's not too technical and should encourage people to think of orchids as something for their gardens.
Yoneo Sagawa Hawaii Orchid Journal : Provides ample information on how to grow epiphytic, lithophytic and terrestrial orchids in a variety of situations ... Highly recommended [and] fun to read!
Yoneo Sagawa Hawaii Orchid Journal : The book is generously illustrated and there is an extensive table of recommended orchids. The price is right!
John Bagnasco Garden Compass : A boon to all California gardeners that wonder what to do with orchids once all the windows in the house are full.
John E. Bryan Gardening Newsletter : It is certain the fine photographs will tempt you to grow orchids in your garden, and with this book you will succeed!
HortIdeas : Growing Orchids in Your Garden has all (or at least almost all) of the information you need to make good choices, wherever your garden is located.
Greg Truex Orchids : The organization of the book lends itself to being a vade mecum, or reference work, for the avid orchid gardener.
Connie Krochmal Bella Online : This authoritative world-wide guide to hardy and tropical species features complete profiles of over 500 orchids. The author's enthusiasm for orchids is infectious, and he is sure to inspire readers with his innovative approaches.
Book Description
Wherever you live in the world, you can grow orchids in your garden. From lady's slippers in boreal forests to dendrobiums hanging from tropical palms, orchids provide color and elegance unmatched by any other garden flower. Although it may sound too good to be true, many orchids are actually low-maintenance plants for various backyard habitats --- and don't need special pots or greenhouses. In this exciting book, Robert Friend shows gardeners how to introduce orchids into the garden by attaching them to trees, fixing them to rocks and walls, or planting them directly into garden beds. He details more than 500 orchid choices for every garden situation and supplies practical cultivation information. The author draws on a lifetime of experience with orchids to explain how to choose the right orchid for a given climate and how to landscape with orchids in different types of gardens from tropical to cool-climate areas, from large acreages to small courtyard gardens. Growing Orchids in Your Garden offers an array of dramatic ideas for every reader.
Growing Orchids in Your Garden
Growing Orchids in Your Garden,Robert G. M. Friend,Timber Press,0881926590,Flowers - Orchids,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Orchid culture,Orchids
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