The 18-inch-tall palaenopsis orchids so prevalent in garden centers and grocery stores, have set in our minds a kind of standard size for indoor orchids so it may come as a bit of a surprise that ...

Ed Cott can’t see the beauty of his 30 or so miniature orchids without a magnifying glass. “I find them intriguing because many of those, the flower is the size of the head of a pin,” says Cott, the ...

Conservation plant hunters have discovered four new species of mini orchids in a Colombian nature reserve. The discoveries were made in the Cauca valley between the Andes mountains and the Pacific ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Peter Lin, an accredited American Orchid Society judge and noted hybridizer of miniature cattleyas or mini-cats, will present the program at the December meeting of the Riverside/San Bernardino ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are orchids native to every continent except Antarctica. Their flowers are highly evolved and incredibly showy with blooms ...

The explosion of growth in the orchid business has brought plenty of new varieties into the living rooms of beginning gardeners. However, with the growing trend of condo dwellers, these living rooms ...

Orchids are widely admired as exotic, mysterious and uncommonly beautiful. But would you take one home? For many, the prospect is downright intimidating. Orchids have a reputation as aristocratic ...

The New York Botanical Garden's annual Orchid Show never fails to disappoint, and this year's show, which runs through April 17, is no exception. "Orchidelirium," its theme, refers to the 19 th ...

Who hasn’t spotted a button-sized succulent hiding under a monster cactus and instantly felt protective? As author Leslie F. Halleck relates in her new book, “Tiny Plants: Discover the Joys of Growing ...