Orchids

Offers simple steps to growing beautiful orchids. This work includes practical tips and step-by-steps that show you how to choose, grow and care for orchids in your home or garden, from encouraging them to reflower, to arranging them to dazzling effect. More

Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, while providing all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish. More

Everything you always wanted to know about growing and caring for orchids, with practical advice on care and cultivation, plus a comprehensive plant directory of 35 popular varieties. More

…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,… More

A beautiful, richly illustrated book on Europe's wild orchids - perhaps the most enigmatic and popular group in the botanical world. More

Orchids make up one of the largest plant families in the world, and they have captivated gardeners for centuries. This book provides instructions for buying, growing and caring for orchids, as well as advice on propagating from seed and dividing established plants. It also contains an illustrated… More

From elegant warmth-loving moth orchids to exquisite slipper orchid, the second edition of Growing Windowsill Orchids tells you everything you need to know about successful orchid growing in the home. More

This beautiful guide reveals the limitless fascination of orchids, reflecting the romance of their history, illuminating the triumphs of hybridization and providing the key to growing these exciting plants at home. More

Expert guidance on growing orchids indoors, under glass and in the garden, beautifully photographed throughout. More

A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon Dunn More

…book on Europeâ s wild orchids â perhaps the most enigmatic and popular group in the botanical world. The orchid family (Orchidaceae), numbering some 25,000 species, is one of the worldâ s two largest families of flowering plants. Whilst the vast majority of orchids are found in the wet tropics,… More

This book concentrates on original species orchids rather than hybrid It gives straight forward advice on successful cultivation methods. There is an extensive illustrated gallery of botanical orchids with many photographs and full descriptive information of the different species. More

Focuses on moth orchids and also provides a detailed look at classic hybrids and species. This book features 365 color photographs and includes advice on selecting and buying moth orchids. It offers information on how these plants can be grown to perfection, with recommendations about light levels,… More

Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. Itâ s a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhereâ… More

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building and, after some deliberation, even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart and his… More

When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son Milton, from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in… More

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building and, after some deliberation, even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. They are a disparate group of people, each with their individual Rendellian psychoses and potential… More

Have you ever lost someone who meant more to you than your own soul? Ford Newcombe has. For years he loved his wife, Pat, more than anyone -- and anything -- in the world. She came into his life when he was just an inexperienced college student with big dreams of becoming a published author. With… More

As the world closes in around them, two Nazis hide out in a tropical paradise. The servants sense something strange about the two old men. They are not sure what business Dr. Langhof and Dr. Ludtz have in El Caliz, but they are certain that whatever they do in their colonial mansion is the work of… More

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Eighty-eight lavishly illustrated pages of step-by-step coloured drawings and photographs teaches you how to grow orchids confidently, successfully and professionally. More

Revision of: Orchids of Minnesota / Welby R. Smith; illustrated by Vera Ming Wong. -- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1993. More

…mountains, Texas hosts a surprising number of native orchids. Their exquisite beauty endears them to everyone from wildflower lovers to professional botanists and conservationists.This beautifully illustrated book presents all 54 wild orchids of Texas. The species descriptions that accompany Joe… More

…volumes, Micropropagation of Orchids Third Edition retains the exhaustive list of micropropagation protocols for many genera and updates each section to include new and/or revised information about: * Culture media and vessels * Techniques and procedures for both orchids which were previously… More

Set in contemporary London, Tigerlily's Orchids is psychological crime at its best in a story about a mysterious stranger who casts a terrible spell over the lives of all who come into contact with her. Essential listening. More

There are approximately 1500 species of native orchids in Costa Rica. This title presents some of the most common species. It includes species names in Spanish, English and Latin. More

The first comprehensive account of the 158 orchid species of Vanuatu. More

Black Orchids & Blood is a tale of mystery and suspense that centers on the exploits of a struggling father and son detective agency run by Marcus Garvey Sampson and his son, Shaheed. Their new case leads them on the trail of a killer that is murdering young men that visit Atlantaâ s many hip hop… More

The exclusive Black Orchid club has provided Maggie with a new world and a new career; a sensuous, clandestine world where giving and receiving pleasure in luxurious surroundings takes top priority. Now her loyalty to the club, and to her skilful lovers Antony and Alexander, is being tested by the… More

130 genera are listed, 731 species described and more than 700 illustrated with colour photographs. More

* From the author of ICE ROAD, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, comes a love story that cuts across race and culture More

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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his… More

Orchids can bloom year after year. In this essential guide, Bruce Rogers, "The Orchid Whisperer", shares his expert tips from more than three decades of breeding and growing orchids. The book demystifies the growing process and features more than 100 lush color photographs of breathtaking… More

Orchid Care for Beginners An Introduction to the Orchid Flower, Growing Orchids, Types of Orchids and How to Care for an Orchid Learning how to grow orchid plants can be a lot of fun. It doesnâ t matter if you are starting off from a store bought plant or a little seed that you planted in your… More

Offering a guide to almost all the known Cyprus Orchid species, this work gives the essential characteristics of each species, along with colour photographs allowing identification. It also includes representative check-lists for each type of habitat, detailing flowering times for each species. More

This edition features â ¢ illustrations â ¢ a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS PREFACE MY GARDENING AN ORCHID SALE ORCHIDS COOL ORCHIDS WARM ORCHIDS HOT ORCHIDS THE LOST ORCHID AN ORCHID FARM ORCHIDS AND HYBRIDIZING More

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…purposes for more than 150 years, but many still regard selecting and caring for orchids beyond their abilities. This book contains chapters on identifying, classifying, and cultivating orchids. It also includes descriptions and illustrations of more than 150 of the commonly grown orchid genera. More

This profusely illustrated field guide covers the 31 species of orchids that grow wild in California. The first book on California's native orchids, it will be a valuable resource for professionals and hobbyists alike. The Wild Orchids of California... More

Covers one hundred and fifty species, including both terrestrial and epiphytic orchids from all parts of Australia. This work combines the nomenclatural treatment of Australia's indigenous orchids with detailed, full-colour botanical illustrations. More

This field guide is an invaluable source to anyone who wants to identify Ethiopian orchids in the field. More

The author recognizes 139 genera and 1,118 species of orchids occurring in Sumatra and its surrounding islands More

A guide to the wild orchids in the Northeast. It spans the region from the southern Pennsylvania border to the northern tip of Maine, and includes features on areas of special interest: the Northwoods, the Connecticut River Valley, central New York State, metropolitan Boston, Cape Cod and eastern… More

…and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as The Origin of Species. But for many botanists, Darwinâ s true legacy starts with the 1862 publication of another volume: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects and on the G More

This text summarizes research on cytogenetics and breeding of dendrobiums. The book examines species important to Hawaii's orchid industry and provides information on cross-breeding, seeding propagation, flower colour and form, controlling disease and tips on germination. More

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Track Listing Disc: 01 Track: 01 - Transylvanian Express • Track: 02 - Waters of the Wild • Track: 03 - Set Your Compass • Track: 04 - Down Street • Track: 05 - A Girl Called Linda • More

When Dave Fenner is hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knows the odds on finding the girl are against him - the cops are still looking for her three months after the ransom was paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, have disappeared into thin air. But what none of them knows is that… More

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After her parents are tragically killed in a car accident, Orchid is sent to live with her father's wife and her half siblings. More than just the circumstances of her birth make Orchid a special child. A Michelle De Leon Short Story. More

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate façade… More

At the Black Orchid Club, adventurous women who yearn for the pleasures of exotic, even kinky sex can quench their desires in discreet and luxurious surroundings. Having tasted the fulfilment of unique and powerful lusts, one such adventurous woman learns what happens when the need for limitless… More

Focuses on the advances in orchid biotechnology research over the years in Taiwan. This work covers topics ranging from the knowledge of basic genome, through floral morphogenesis, floral ontology, embryogenesis, micropropogation, to functional genomics such as EST, virus-induced gene silencing, and… More