Orchids For Dummies by Steven A. Frowine (PDF)

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Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color Color your world with orchids Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren’t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. Discover how to: * Select orchids that will thrive in your home * Water, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchids * Decipher complicated orchid names * Get familiar with favorite orchid varieties * Create spectacular orchid displays

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Editorial Reviews: From the Author Believe it or not, orchids — the most glamorous and spectacular flowering plants in the world, nature’s true masterpieces — are easy to grow! You just need to give them what they need. And their requirements are not difficult to meet — adequate light, humidity, water, and ventilation. Sure, there are other nuances, like fertilizing, repotting, insect and disease control, but none of these are daunting. I’ve been growing and blooming orchids in my home for almost 40 years — mostly not in a greenhouse, but under lights or in the windowsill. Helping you achieve success with these glorious plants is my pleasurable mission. If you follow the steps I lay out in this book, you will grow orchids that thrive. Everything in this book comes from many years of my own trials and errors — not from theories about what should happen or what orchids might need. Sure, I’m a professional horticulturist, but probably more importantly, I’m a hands-on, sometimes fanatical, home orchid grower. I don’t share with you anything in this book that I haven’t tried myself or am sure that works. Years ago, the methods of orchid culture were well-guarded secrets, hoarded by commercial growers and private estate gardeners. That’s not the case here. This is a tell-all book where all secrets are revealed. So you can now enter this wonderful world of orchids without fear, knowing that you’re armed with the information you need to be successful and enjoy one of the most rewarding and fascinating, lifelong hobbies that you’ll ever experience — growing orchids. From the Inside Flap Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full colorColor your world with orchidsOrchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren’t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. The National Gardening Association (NGA), is a not-for-profit leader in plant education. THE DUMMIES WAY™Explanations in plain English”Get in, get out” informationIcons and other navigational aidsOnline cheat sheetTop ten listsA dash of humor and funDiscover how to:Select orchids that will thrive in your homeWater, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchidsDecipher complicated orchid namesGet familiar with favorite orchid varietiesCreate spectacular orchid displaysGet smart! @www.dummies.comFind listings of all our booksChoose from many different subject categoriesSign up for eTips at etips.dummies.com From the Back Cover Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full colorColor your world with orchidsOrchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren’t they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. The National Gardening Association (NGA), is a not-for-profit leader in plant education. THE DUMMIES WAY™Explanations in plain English”Get in, get out” informationIcons and other navigational aidsOnline cheat sheetTop ten listsA dash of humor and funDiscover how to:Select orchids that will thrive in your homeWater, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchidsDecipher complicated orchid namesGet familiar with favorite orchid varietiesCreate spectacular orchid displaysGet smart! @www.dummies.comFind listings of all our booksChoose from many different subject categoriesSign up for eTips at etips.dummies.com About the Author Steven A. Frowine is a professional horticulturalist who grows more than 200 orchids in his Connecticut home. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I usually look at as much of a book as possible before buying, and sometimes I get a copy from the library to read and decide if I want the book (YES, I do buy books even after I’ve read them). Neither option was available, so I bought this one. I’m rather disappointed, as it doesn’t really answer the questions I have about growing orchids. I’ve been growing orchids for several years, (phalaenopsis and oncidium) and I still have a lot of questions about growing them. For example, what do you do with the roots that grow outside the pot, when you re-pot the orchid? Tuck them into the potting mix? What if they’re too long? Should you wrap the around inside the pot? Cut the ends off? Leave them out? What potting mix is best for specific orchid species? This book lists all the available (and some are not readily available) ingredients, but gives no guidance about specific mixes for specific orchids, just 2 recipes. Alo, how firmly do you pack the potting mis around the orchid? More illustrations would have helped. On the other hand, there was too much about too many species of orchids that the average windowsill grower will never want to mess with. And, if one chooses to try something more advanced, one would then turn to advanced books–not a ‘For Dummies’. So, if I’d been able to review the content more thoroughly, I would not have bought this book. I’m still looking for a go9od book on orchid culture!

⭐This book chalk full of small and important instructions for the beginner and someone who is thinking about raising orchids. But, don’t stop with just the book, but go to glean from other books. Highly recommended. Oh, it is easy reading.

⭐Or the difference between “repotting” and “changing the potting media (material)…can you reuse plastic containers if u change the potting media and disinfect/clean the old plastic container? These are the specifics I would like to know more about, specifically for moth orchids l, which are the most widely sold type of orchid in the North EAstern United States, so the book could have included more information specific to the most popular beginner orchids being bought at big box stores and supermarkets etc, as orchid specialty stores are not widely available in most areas of the U.S.

⭐THE BOOK IS VERY INFORMATIVE & FAIRY SIMPLE, BUT THIS BOOK IS GREAT FOR NEWBIES. SHIPPING WAS FAIR. PRICE WAS FAIR. WOULD RECOMMEND THIS SELLER.

⭐I bought this book in order to figure out what was wrong with an orchid I had bought. I keep finding stuff in this book hilarious. I’ve owned 2 orchid for two years, and have never once faced a problem with them, especially not with anything this book says will be a problem! Also this book is far to vague, there are so many orchid types, this book doesn’t clarify what type it’s talking about. He wrote this book like it was professionals and not amateurs that were reading it.

⭐What should have been a quick and simple reference book is dragged down with TMI on a zillion different varieties of orchids. This makes finding basic information unnecessarily difficult.

⭐Love this book ! I’ve just started working with Orchids, and need all the help I can get. This book is an easy read, is quite humorous while at the same time, very informative, and I find myself laughing out loud at Mr. Frowine’s humor while at the same time, getting a better sense of how these new-to-me ‘plants’ really work. (So far, my Orchids are still alive !)

⭐This book is helpful for the beginner but on a most critical subject – watering orchids – it is of little help. It itemizes about ten variables that can influence how often to water but gives no specific directions. It concludes the discussion by saying that the leaves will indicate when an orchid is being watered too much or too little and goes on to state that the symptoms are the same for either condition. It then recommends repotting the dying orchid in an attempt to save it. So then what?

⭐This book does things like:uses the light levels of Hawaii and New England (can you guess what the light’s like in New England)as guides for various light level requirements of certain orchids. What about the light in Scotland, Middle or South England, Wales?Even the names of compost components are American and it is not always obvious what their UK counterpart is (even if there is one),the suppliers and web links etc are also for the US market.Finally there are many hybrids and cultivars in this book and unless you check them individually there is no way of telling if they are available here. In my experience of other plants’ cultivars that are available to the US market they are often not available here.If you are a beginner it would make sense to by a book with UK specific information.No attempt has been made by the authors or publishers to internationalise this book except the attempt to sell it to us.I would try

⭐The Orchid Expert

⭐as a cheaper and UK oriented alternative.

⭐So pleased with my purchase, this book tells you absolutely everything you need to know about orchids!!!!! As you’d expect from the dummy books and so easy to grab and find info quickly . Love it thanks

⭐This was bought as a present to an orchid enthusiast who didn’t quite know how to look after orchids properly. Book explains in simple language step by step how to grow orchids. Great!

⭐As an early dummy. (actually always have been, but only just realised) my approach to orchids has just been to stick them in steamy bathroom with a drop of water when I remembered, which has always given rise to a constant flow of diffent orchids. Good, but hey, they are like pets and its sad to see them go!! Now, with this book, I face a resurgent future of orchids that might grow to love me and with me become close friends…. or not, as the case may be – but the book is good.

⭐Great book.Really helpful.Great tips.Would recommend this book.

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