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The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids
The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids
Series: Kew Experts
Brief Description
Learn how to grow the most beautiful orchids at home. From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the 60 best orchids to grow at home and teaches you how to cultivate each one. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations,...
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Format: Paperback / softback
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A combination of botanical beauty and practical advice in The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids will inspire beginners and experienced growers to love and grow 60 beautiful orchids.
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Learn how to grow the most beautiful orchids at home. From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the 60 best orchids to grow at home and teaches you how to cultivate each one. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, this is part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides, now available in paperback.
This inspirational book from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew reveals the easiest, most attractive, and most popular plants to grow today. Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000 members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness. However, Kew expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become permanent and happy members of your home.
Supported by 12 projects and easy-to-follow practical advice, Philip shows how to welcome new plants and revive their flagging spirits, as well as their basic care and cultivation. He demonstrates how to produce and train flowers, collect and sow their seeds, and plant and display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket. Learn when to water them, how to repot them, and discover the ideal room and conditions each orchid needs to thrive.
The combination of botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and experienced growers to cultivate new species in many different ways. Underpinned by the authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Philip Seaton, this book combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty.
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information, as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing House Plants, Growing Herbs, Growing Bulbs, Growing Fruit, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Trees, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805700340
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Illustration: 215
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has cultivated plants for more than 250 years. Today, Kew's horticulturists grow over 19,000 species of plants in the gardens - the most diverse collection in the world.Philip Seaton is an expert orchid grower, conservationist and lecturer and author of three books on the subject with Kew publishing. He is Secretary of the Orchid Specialist Group (OSG) and an honorary Research Assistant at Kew. At Kidderminster College, Philip lectures on seed growing techniques both in the UK and Latin America, and has co-authored landmark scientific papers on the subject.
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