Orchids are a plant that gift givers love gifting and recipients seemingly love killing. Browsing your local garden center, hardware shop, or grocery store, the orchid you are most likely to run ...

Orchid Care After Flowering Many types of orchids bloom once a year for a few months. After your orchid is done blooming, the flowers will drop off, leaving the old flower spike behind.

The orchid has bloomed twice before with beautiful flowers and has been repotted in a larger pot once. At this point we are wondering if these are flowering spikes or just roots growing up into ...

Sometimes you might get a surprise side spike with additional flowers, or you might even get an orchid plant growing on the flower spike. If it turns brown, use clean snips to snip it off just ...

It’s not good to let your orchid sit in water as it encourages root rot. Only water the potting mix directly and avoid wetting the leaves or flowers — otherwise this encourages disease.

Therefore an expert has shared how orchid owners can use the 'clipping' trick to help their plant get the best chance to 'grow stronger roots'.

On “moth orchid” phalaenopsis, the most widely-grown type of orchid, spikes emerge from between leaf axils (where leaves join the stem), as do roots.

LEARNING how to prune orchids is an "essential" task according to houseplants experts to enable your plant to produce plenty of blooms next season. Gardeners who are lucky might even have a second ...

Orchids offer an addition of bright colours to your home and are great houseplants to have if you know how to care for them. Read our guide on how to look after popular orchid varieties.