Guidelines in Growing Orchids in Your Garden
Growing orchids isn’t a super easy process to accomplish. It may sound effortless but believe it or not it isn’t. Lots of people who love flowers specially the stunning and vivid orchid flowers suppose they can develop such flowers in their garden without perspiring much but after they are already in the situation, they understand that it takes greater than providing water and putting fertilizer. On the other hand, it is also not impossible for you to be able to grow orchids in your garden. There is nothing impossible these days especially if you are really passionate about it. So here are a handful of pointers if you’re interested to start growing orchids in their garden:
1. Know the type of orchids that you have – it is very essential to know what kind of orchids you are trying to grow in your garden. When you buy orchids, try to ask from the store different information about the orchids that you want to buy. There are lots of species and breeds of orchids and each of these has unique needs in terms of watering, lighting, and even the fertilizers to be used. For example, orchids that originated in cold places don’t like too much sunlight. So if you have this kind of orchids then it is advisable to avoid direct exposure from the sun. It is also good to put the pot on top of a water basin to help the orchids absorb water and coolness that they need.
2. Water it accordingly – as mentioned orchids require different types of watering. This is according to the type of orchids. Some orchids need to be watered everyday while some requires only twice a week watering. So this only proves that you should really know the type of orchids you have in your garden to give proper watering needs.
3. Learn about repotting – repotting is very important in growing orchids. Once you see rotten stems then it is already time to cut it and repot the orchids. This is done to avoid the rotten parts to reach other parts of the plant most especially the roots. Repotting can be intimidating and hard at the beginning but for sure you will get the hang of it after doing it twice or thrice. One important thing to remember is to make sure that the pot where you will transfer your orchids is clean and germs-free.
4. Find out the best fertilizer to use – when you are buying orchids, you should ask the store to give information about the best fertilizer to use. It is not good to just use any kind of fertilizer as this might ruin your flowers.
5. Continue to learn about the orchids in your garden – last but certainly not the
least always research and find more interesting facts about your orchids so you can take
care of it very well.
These are some of the things that you should remember in growing your orchids. It may be
hard in the beginning but as soon as you get the right techniques then you might even be an
expert in the field. Always remember to continuously seek information that will help you
learn more about your lovely orchids. Now, do you think you can start growing orchids in
your garden?
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