What Is A Black Orchid - Fascinating But Elusive

By: Robert Roy

Do they really exist? Where is the black orchid? These questions and others have on orchid hobbyists minds for centuries.

Orchid growers and hobbyists have been trying to grow this orchid for a very long time. They have tried many different orchid plants and hybrid varieties to get to this orchid.

There seems to have been a fascination for black anything. You have people striving for black gladiolus, black canna- lillies and yes even black corn. (I'm not sure if they ever got the black corn.)

There are many other references to "black orchid" in detective mysteries, in names of clubs and restaurants as well as on the stage. In fact, go on to Amazon and look at the book "Black Orchid" by Dave McKean.

As far as I can judge from the reviews growers were close but still didn't accomplish what their goal was. Some of the orchids that do come close include the Laelicattleya Lc Mem. Robert Strait "Blue Hawaii" which has a black lip.

The Vanda David Gardner #1 has purplish areas under black speckles. There is a black tongued orchid, the Epigeneium amplum. Another example is the Liparis nervosa, a Japanese version of this orchid plant but when you look at it you can seen it is not really black.

There are still a lot of misconceptions about orchids. Some of the myths that still persist include that orchids are difficult to grow. This can't be further from the truth. In fact today orchids like the phalaenopsis or cattleyas are very easy to grow.

Another misconception is that all orchids need to grow in a greenhouse. Once again, some of the best places for orchid plants is in the home where there is bright light. Some of the orchids do well near a West facing window.

It seems that all the hard work by hybridization specialists still have been alluded them and the orchid has not really been developed. It remains a hope for any grower or hobbyist to get the crown that says, "I did it".

How to Purchase the Right Orchid

You want your orchid to grow well after you purchase it, right? Before you purchase your plant you first need to look at where it will be spending its time. What is it going to like staying in a particular room? And which orchid variety will do best in that area.

In a home there are only a certain number of changes that can be made for an orchid plant, or any plant for that matter. They are:

· Moving your orchid closer or further from the window

· Watering a home orchid more or less frequently

· Varying the room temperature

· Changing the humidity

· Moving closer or further from other plants

· Repotting when needed

Let's take a look at how to survey your home for the best orchid that will grow well.

Use a light meter to show or estimate how much light you have in your home. Also, try it at different times of the day.

Do you have pets? Do they tend to get into the plants? If so, your orchid may not do well.

Survey your home, where would you put your orchid? Does your home have mostly shade or full sun? Would you be ok with putting your orchid in a bathroom that gets great humidity or in front of a living room window?

How good are you at watering? Do you forget? What about giving fertilizer to your plant?

Now is the time to get the best home orchid that will fit your home environment.

You want plenty of pretty flowers and have bright light, dendrobium is the plant

If you have indirect bright light but want plenty of flowers, try a phalaenopsis orchid

A paph is great when there is little light and you want a compact plant

The room is fairly bright light but it does get a bit cold in your house, get an odonoglossum.

If you live in south florida and get plenty of sun as well as humidity, then a vanda orchid is the one for you. A brassia also does well in these conditions or in a greenhouse

There is medium light, a miltonia will suit this situation
on oncidium is best suited for fairly bright areas.

These tips will get you the best home orchid for your house. Orchids are surprisingly very easy to care for and are spectacular when in bloom. In fact, in some of the orchid species the blooms will last up to 4 months.

Flowers Tip for Orchids

By: Jules Sims

Orchids are a things of beauty, one of the most impressive flora you can have at home is an orchid. Because Orchids come from a very large family there is a mammoth departure in the different types of Orchids available on the advertise. Orchids are not the most stubborn florae to take nursing of, but they do neediness some awareness, you can have a significant realize on the orchids you grow.

Wild orchid is just a superb flower that everyone should own, a ferocious orchid has a unique look and form of tumor. Wild orchids have an amazing verity of species, each with its own striking character and pallor. Orchids in common and crazy orchids in particular require that you settle where you think you will place the orchids before you actually buy them, the custody desired for orchids strain that you present them with enough wetness and air spring, and there is a massive difference between placing an orchid at home or have a madcap orchid in your garden.

As a character who knows the importance of flora for stress relief and house decoration I can absolutely say with confidence the orchids supply abundance of pleasure just from watching them, even a role that is completely indifferent to plants will like looking at a thriving orchid, the sizable kind of the orchid family makes it almost impossible for the ordered role to get habitual with a kind of orchid.

Orchid had about 35,000 different species, originally this flower grow on plants and used them as hosts, this doesn't mean the orchids cannot thrive and grow lacking a hierarchy host. The orchid family, because of its diversity is an extremely adaptable flower, diverge to trendy belief, the orchids are a very well adjusted family of plants.

Orchids are "intended" to appeal insects for reproduction means, by getting the insect to land on the flower, it sticks some of the orchid "signature" on the insect and when this insect than plants the orchid it bares with it the markings of that particular orchid.

Orchids have a well documented story, because of the orchids popularity in almost all parts of the world, many printed books and articles had mentioned the orchid flower and the range of the orchid family in flowers. The earliest written mark of their presence if as Chinese and Japanese portrayal and literature of the circa 700 B.C. in onwards period the orchid was believed to have remedial powers and was used, by many cultures, as a character of a herbal or natural remedy.

Nowadays it is very painless and unfussy to get an orchid at the floweriest, most florist even have orchid flowers which they use in their flower arrangements. The orchids bought at a florist will not last long, but a fixed orchid could be a lot of fun to take bother of at home, you just necessary to find the right location for the orchid, with abundance of humidity and air spring, not exposed to curl and cold, there is an usual check and mistake chapter in which you discern what your orchid likes and dislikes, it is a very interesting person of communication between a flower and a human.

Enjoy orchids, they are a spectacular families of flowers!