Miniature Orchids and How to Grow Them

by Rebecca Tyson Northen

Book Overview

Excellent, comprehensive guide - meticulously researched, clearly written and profusely illustrated - describes the characteristics and basic needs of hundreds of orchid species - from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486289206
• ISBN13: 9780486289205
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Really wonderful, but...

Truly, a fine book, but I doubt it's for beginners. After a brief (30 page) culture and environment description and introduction, there's a list of the miniature orchids you can (possibly) grow...but here is the crux of the problem. The plants are described, but it seems as if the descriptions are simply being quoted from some unknown source; mostly there are no culture descriptions. Most orchids aren't all that cheap, and most growers like to do research on what they're going to buy. Temperature, humidity, resting period, etc are all important...and unless you can do a search on some of these true rarities, the money (and the search time) will be simply wasted. There's simply nothing about them other than the descriptions.