There are more than 25,000 species of orchid, so needless to say, there's no shortage of stunning options to choose from.

I was in a nursery recently and wandered into the greenhouse where they had tropical plants generally grown indoors. There were all the typical foliage plants, such as dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos ...

Orchids are easy to care for if you know what they need. (DINAH ROGERS) There was a time when orchids were so expensive only the wealthy could indulge in collecting and growing them. In addition to ...

Winter doesn't have to mean flowerless orchids; with a few simple adjustments, your Phalaenopsis can stay healthy and may ...

Orchids are among the world's oldest flower groups and one of the largest, with more than 30,000 species. They emerged about 100 million years ago — 30 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, and ...

Orchid growers are passionate about their collection and learn everything they can to master the sport. Over time, they start to acquire other tropical plants, usually as gifts, which also bask in the ...

The biggest problem with growing orchid cactuses is figuring out just what they are. They are cactuses, but are not spiny. Their spectacular blossoms are neither orchids nor orchidlike. Sometimes ...

Mary Nisbet’s love of orchids has taken her places, literally. It’s what made her leave her job at an Oregon nursery on a whim to move to San Francisco in hopes of working for Rod McLellan Co., an ...

Orchids have ignited passion in people for thousands of years. The search for them in the wild has taken expeditions to the far corners of the earth. Legal battles have been waged over their ownership ...