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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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There are also plant raffles and sales of orchids at our meetings where you can join in friendly orchid talk while enjoying light refreshments.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Orchids are epiphytes, that is the roots' main duty is to grasp and cling to other larger structures such as trees, without in any way harming or taking away food from the host, unlike a parasitic plant.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Plant growth is restricted primarily to the moist early spring and late autumn periods, with a flush of spring annual flowers, bulbs and orchids, and a less pronounced flush in the autumn.
These orchids also produce various shapes of pseudobulbs thaat store water and nutrients while supporting the leaf and blooming structure of the plant.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Our orchids are full size specimen plants, and come dressed with live green moss, decorative basket or container and stakes.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Orchids must be watered somewhat differently from most other plants, the most noticable difference being orchids' intolerance of dissolved salts.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Orchids of Guatemala and Belize By Oakes Ames And Donovan Correl Published by Dover This book has lots of information but it requires a previous knowledge of plant names and taxomony.
Use an organic plant food such as a fish or seaweed emulsion or a chemical fertilzer especially formulated for orchids or bromeliads.
The orchids are grown from seed germinated at Kew, as part of a project that aims to generate plants from suitable sources to re-establish native orchid populations in the field.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Orchids are very plentiful, as are pitcher plants whose pitcher is filled with a sweet nectar that both attracts and digests insects.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Some types of orchids produce baby plants from a flower spike like a spider plant does.
Many varieties of orchids are grown commercially on the island and are marketed as both cut and potted plants.
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