Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are orchids native to every continent except Antarctica. Their flowers are highly evolved and incredibly showy with blooms ...

A: By all means, yes, find and plant Reed Stem orchids anywhere. Also known as Epidendrum radicans to orchidist and horticulturist, this is among the easiest orchids to grow. Native to Central America ...

Epidendrum 'Pom Pom' is one of many reed-stem epidendrums that do well in South Florida. Photo by Georgia Tasker / Miami Miami Herald File The Epidendrum “Pom Pom” is the size of a softball with ...

The 18-inch-tall palaenopsis orchids so prevalent in garden centers and grocery stores, have set in our minds a kind of standard size for indoor orchids so it may come as a bit of a surprise that ...

Colorful and elegant with an air of exotic mystery, the orchid isn’t exactly the first ingredient that comes to mind when tossing a salad. Yet orchids have been used for cooking perhaps longer than ...

Orchid lovers will appreciate the easy-to-grow Epidendrum radicans, also known as reed-stem epidendrum or fire-star orchid. Long-lasting clusters of tiny red-orange-and-yellow flowers on the ends of ...

DELAND — When Bobbie Bledsoe received her first Epidendrum orchid more than 12 years ago, she had only one goal in mind: Keep it alive. “I killed four or five of them after being told that anybody ...

I've been surprised that no one has asked me about orchids as long as I have been writing this column, until two weeks ago. When I looked at all my files about plants that people have asked questions, ...

Orchid flowers are not perfect flowers like roses. They are like imaginary life forms that may be expected in an alien world. Orchids produce various types, color and shapes of flowers that will ...