Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

If God really exists and he did something nice, so that could be women and orchids. Each one on own way radiates its own beauty, tenderness, charm and grace. Without them it would be life on earth boring and sad. In Orchids family belong more than 30,000 species of plants which grow in all climatic zones except the Arctic, the Antarctic climate and ice mountain areas. Their specialty is two-sex flowers, consisting of three provisional and three petals. Gives the typical appearance of the back leaves, known as labelum and is a different color from the other flower leaves. Beautiful flowers are a wide variety of shapes and colors, which are very long time persist in the plant, or cut off in the pot.


Orchids -Most Beautiful Flowers

Wonderful Orchids Flowers

Wonderful Orchids Flowers

On the flowers is worth the wait.
Sometimes it is necessary to first orchid flowers wait a few years, a possible long wait, the more are looking forward to the first flowers. In particular, since some types of orchids flower two to three months. We should not even think that orchids are interesting only for their flowers. On its own way orchids are pretty well as a green house plant. When we try to cultivate the orchids for the first time, we must carefully select the type of cultivation. We should starts with the one of the simpler types, which may be already on the window shelf ensure conditions similar to the natural environment orchids.


Wonderful Orchids Flowers

Growing Orchids-Rules

Growing Orchids-Rules

Growing orchids
Growing these plants is not necessarily expensive, but also not too difficult if we take into account certain rules. Commonly known types of orchids are not more expensive than the other room plants and can be placed on the window shelf. Many farmers are starting the production of caution with a single orchid in a kind, caring which is not too complicated. Of course, some at the beginning had luck. Later, after the first performance, interest in orchids grows, and many people become passionate lover of these beautiful flowers.
Most orchids grow on other plants, mostly on trees, but are not parasites; they grow in symbiosis with the host. As the plants take carbon dioxide from the air, all the other essential nutrients, however, receive the rainwater and rotten parts of plants.


Growing Orchids-Rules

The Genera and Species of Orchids

The Genera and Species of Orchids

Phalaenopsis
Phalaenopsis is the most widespread genus orchid. You can bring up in the apartment, as well as in greenhouses. It was named from the Greek word phalaina - moth and opsis - because its flowers look like moth
Vanda
The name derives from Sanskrit’s name Vanda for the species Vanda tessellata. Their homeland is India, Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia.
Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum is widespread in southern China, India, South Asia and the Pacific Islands. It was named from the Greek words Paphos - the name of the city in Cyprus and pedilon - shoes.
Cattleya
In nature is found from Costa Rica to tropical Central America. Genus was named after William Cattley, which has successfully raised Cattleya labiata orchid species, which is used as packaging material in the transport of other orchids.
Cymbidium
The name derives from the Greek word kumbos - hole, because the lips are in the middle of a flower designed in the hole. Their home is a tropical and subtropical Asia (Northern India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Borneo), and northern Australia.
Dendrobium
Their homeland is Asia, the Philippines, Borneo, Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The name derives from the Greek word dendron - a tree, and bios - life.
Oncidium
It is a genus that is very complex, as some species are reclasificied. The name derives from the Greek word onkos - swelling, whereas the lower lip flowers look like they were swollen.
Miltonia
This is a small orchid genus, which is named after Lord Fitzwilliam Milton, who was an English lover of orchids. Their homeland is the central and southern Brazil to Argentina.
Zygopetalum
Masdevallia
Epidendrum
Ludisia discolor
Hybrids: Burrageara, Cambria, Miltasia...


The Genera and Species of Orchids

Setting Orchids

Setting Orchids

Purchased plants need to adapt to new conditions. Often it happens that orchids (especially Phalenopsis) flourish quickly or very quickly lose the flower and not develop buds. This is due to the violent change in breeding. Orchids are grown in the purchase of greenhouses, and subsequently transported and some time behind the flower shop almost no light. Then the plants become very sensitive to light. From March until the end of September, this may mean the death of the plant.
For most species, the most appropriate is east or west window shelf. For species Cattleya, Vanda, Dendrobium and Cymbidium, the appropriate policy is to the south window, while the northern location is not recommended because of the lack of light, especially in winter. Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilum, Ludisia grow better in a bright room, but not in direct sunlight.
For many species of orchids, it is useful to be placed during the summer on the balcony or terrace, but only when we are sure that the night temperature does not damage the flowers. In early autumn they put back in place. Fresh air is strengthen orchids and has a beneficial effect on their flowering. Specifically, it is very useful for the Cymbidium, Zygopetalum, Nobile Dendrobium, Cattleya.
Orchids can be successfully placed in the basement, if we where ensure them the artificial light, heat and adequate ventilation.


Setting Orchids