Growing Orchids at Home: The Beginner’s Guide to Orchid Care

The second edition of the authoritative and detailed guide to caring for orchids in the home, covering all common types of orchids.

This book--the result of experience, continuous experimentation, and extensive research by expert authors Manos Kanellos and Peter White--communicates all the necessary information in a way that is easy to understand and highly illustrated with color photographs. It includes a section with answers to the most common questions in caring for orchids, and a photographic guide to signs, diagnosis, and treatment for bringing ailing orchids back to health.

In this second edition, the authors instruct readers on caring for re-flowering orchids and how to repot orchids, to ensure longevity for these popular plants. The new Q&A section directly addresses growers’ most prescient and common questions while an extended section dedicated to diagnosis and treatment explains in greater detail how to care for orchids. This is the only book you need when growing orchids at home.

Manos Kanellos studied plant physiology at Reading University and has worked with orchids for a number of years in Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. He has grown orchids at his home for over twenty years and gives talks to garden centers all over Britain on growing tropical orchids. Peter White is an acknowledged authority on Phalaenopsis, with over forty years of experience in orchid growing. He is a qualified judge of the RHS Orchid Committee and was president of the Orchid Society of Great Britain from 2013 to 2019. He is also the founder of www.orchidaccessories.co.uk, a popular website for everything you need to grow orchids.