SAOS Library - Beginners Books

 
All About Growing Orchids

All About Growing Orchids

Ortho's All About Series, Rick Bond, Barbara Ferguson
This practical guide contains the information you need to bring 120 orchids into bloom in a windowsill, under lights, or in a greenhouse.
 
 
Bloom-Again Orchids: 50 Easy-Care Orchids that Flower Again and Again and Again

Bloom-Again Orchids: 50 Easy-Care Orchids

judywhite
This book contains profiles of more than 100 orchids and 355 varieties include cultivation information and detailed notes on each fragrance.
 
 
Easy Orchids: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens--Indoors and Out

Easy Orchids: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens--Indoors and Out

Mimi Luebbermann
This engaging volume provides all the inspiration and hands-on facts for transforming a windowsill, patio, glassed-in porch, or small garden plot into orchid territory.
 
 
Growing Orchids is Fun:  Simple Facts About Growing Orchids

Growing Orchids is Fun: Simple Facts About Growing Orchids

Albert P Hollingsworth
The contents include questions generally asked about growing orchids, groups of orchids, orchid names, classifying orchids, six simple requirements for growing orchids, pollination, common orchid genera, and awarding orchids.
 
 
How to Grow Orchids

Orchids

Sunset Books
This book teaches you how to grow orchids in a greenhouse or garden with 250 varieties to choose from.
 
 
Orchids

Orchids

Burpee American Gardening Series, Eve Kirshner Glasser
This new gardening guide demystifies growing these fragrant, exotic flowers and explains, step-by-step, how to care for orchids raised on windowsills, under lights and in greenhouses. Here are detailed descriptions of more than 40 of the easiest orchids to grow.
 
 
Orchids

Orchids

Kew Garden Guides, Joyce Stewart
An excellent primer for the beginner that covers in layman’s terms cultivation, propagation, pests and diseases. Almost half the book is devoted to an A-Z listing of recommended species and hybrids for various conditions.
 
 
Orchids as House Plants

Orchids as House Plants

Rebecca Tyson Northen
Orchids are one of the most fascinating plant families to grow. With their tremendous variety of sizes, colors, shapes, habits, and fragrances, orchids offer the opportunity of unparalleled pleasure and excitement to the plant enthusiast.
 
 
Orchids:  Easier than You Think

Orchids: Easier than You Think

Your guide to growing and maintaining your beautiful orchids. This DVD features our own Fred Keefer and Tom Sheehan of the University of Florida.
 
 
Orchids for Dummies

Orchids for Dummies

Steven A. Frowine
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, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants.
 
 
Ultimate Orchid

Ultimate Orchid

Dr. Thomas Sheehan
Ultimate Orchid includes more than 400 dazzling full-color photographs that present a cross-section of the orchid world. The authoritative text contains essential facts and interesting details for all of the major orchid groups. Beginners and seasoned fanciers alike will find inspiring and useful information throughout the book.
 
 
You Can Grow Orchids

You Can Grow Orchids

Mary Noble
The culture and habits of many types of orchids. Information about green houses or growing orchids as houseplants. How to make corsages from the flowers.
 
 
You Can Grow Orchids

You Can Grow Cattleya Orchids

Mary Noble
Learn to grow these beautiful orchids. You can grow them if you understand them and provide them with the proper light, potting media, temperature and water.
 
 
You Can Grow Orchids

You Can Grow Phalaenopsis Orchids

Mary Noble
Learn to grow these beautiful orchids. You can grow them if you understand them and provide them with the proper light, potting media, temperature and water.
 
 
You Can Grow Orchids

Your First Orchid

Stephen R. Batchelor
It is easy to learn how to grow orchids with the help of this book published by the American Orchid Society. The author writes about how to select orchids, water and fertilize plants, choose a growing area, repot, identify and control ailments, and then recommends choices for beginners. More than 70 color photographs by Charles Marden Fitch show how to pot an orchid, water, grow orchids under lights, and much more.