Ortho's All About Orchids (Ortho's All About Gardening)
Ortho's All About Orchids (Ortho's All About Gardening) Helps beginning orchid growers develop the skills necessary to progress to more difficult ones.
Plenty of information to inspire more advanced orchid growers.
Provides a basic understanding of optimum environment for growing orchids.
Helpful hints for creating that ideal environment.
Explains potting, staking, and dividing orchids.
Teaches about orchid growth patterns, and shows how to handle plants based on those patterns.
Customer Review: A Great Beginners Book
Ifyou are looking for a comprehensive beginner's guide to orchids at a reasonable price this is it. The book is well organized, easy to understand, and decently illustrated. Photos and quality may not be of the best quality, but you can find those in one of the many other pictorial guides to orchids available. If you want to get growing, this book is a great start.
Customer Review: Excellent
This is a truly excellent starter and it's great for the medium level amatuer, too. There is a lot of information, yet it's not succint. The quality of the pictures is not satisfactory, however, this is one of the very few books which show overall plants, as opposed to show macro of flowers only. This is not a minor point: when I placed my first order online, I decided I was not going to buy dendrobium, because I don't like the plant. While this reflect my personal taste, knowng how the overall plants look like was a major plus. Moreover this book teaches how to measure the light intensity by simply using the lightmeter of your TTL camera. To me this information alone is worth the price of admission.