#Gardening Challenges
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st Hi, Doug – Howard shared your e-mail with us all; this IS a friendly
place, especially for a forum so new. (Maybe that's part of it.)
Anyway, you'll soon notice i never let a chance to proselytize for orchid
growing… there's so many incredible misconceptions about them, and i just
keep trying resolutely to help people see they're great, often easy, fairly
inexpensive, windowsill or under lights plants. and with some 30,000+
species and probably 60,000 man-made hybrids, you can be sure there are a
lot of cool growers. Some of the most richly colored flowers belong in the
cool growers – preferring winter night temperatures of 45 degrees or so.
(Odontoglossums and cymbidiums are two genera that spring immediately to
mind.)
So if you have any yen at all, please try them. If you need info re where
to buy them, etc., just give a holler. i'm usually around here somewhere,
glad to help. glad you're aboard. — jw
>> Some of the most richly colored flowers belong in the cool growers – >>
preferring winter night temperatures of 45 degrees or so.
I have a cool greenhouse where I grow camellias (and potted bulbs and start
seeds for spring). I'd like to start growing some orchids. Can you
recommend any mail order sources? Thanks.
..Martin