I’d much rather be outdoors and one of the nice things about gardening outdoors as opposed to indoors is that you don’t have to clean up the mess you make. But a house with out something green in it seems barren to me. I was surprised when someone suggested I try growing orchids. Orchids are amazing plants with bright flowers.
The golden rule for orchid success is to duplicate the plant’s natural conditions as closely as possible. In nature, most orchids are epiphytes, meaning they grow on other objects, clinging to rough bark or even stone. The showy orchids favored by most people are usually either phalaenopsis hybrids (so-called moth orchids) or dendrobium hybrids.
The closer you can come to creating these conditions in your growing area, the more success and better blooms you will have.After the bloom is done, go ahead and cut off the dead flower spike with sterile snippers and repot the plant. Orchids should be potted into specialized orchid pots in orchid mixture (usually a mix of charcoal, soil - gravel)
