Place the plant in a warm (anything above 15 degrees C is fine) and draft-free room in indirect light – not on a window-ledge that gets direct sunlight all day. An epiphytic orchid, in particular, is really just ‘perched’ perilously on the top of the compost in the pot, and so it will easily fall out if tilted. Similarly, a tropical orchid, used to regular and torrential rain showers, is not going to be too happy being watered once a month and put to live in a freezing cold porch. To flower they need a distinct drop in temperature between day and night from mid- to late summer – you achieve this by putting the plants outside from June to September. Moth orchids flower multiple times on one stem, so cut off faded flowers just above the next flower bud.

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Unlike most other pot plants, orchids don’t need regular re-potting and often thrive when root-bound. In most centrally heated homes the air is dry, so mist the foliage every two to three days using tepid water (avoid spraying the flowers), or stand the pot on a tray of damp gravel. Orchids are grown for their flowers, so it's essential that they're deadheaded correctly to encourage more flowers. These include Dendrobium orchids, Paphiopedilum orchids, Oncidium orchids, Vanda orchids and Cambria hybrid orchids.You should also note that the picture images show only our serving suggestions of how to prepare your food - all table accessories and additional items and/or ingredients pictured with the product you are purchasing are not included. To avoid giving your plant too much water, always lift the pot first to check if it feels heavy – water only when it feels light. Water either from above, place a saucer underneath the pot to catch excess water and tip away any that does not disappear within a few minutes of watering, or dunk the pot into a bowl of water until the growing media is wet, then drain well. You can expect a Moth Orchid to flower about once a year so, as the flowers can last up to 6 months, you will have a beautiful spray of orchids nearly all the time.

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Please be aware that orchids are a huge and very diverse family of plants and individual plant labels will specify your plants special requirements. It may not be reproduced in any way whatsoever without Wm Morrisons Supermarkets Limited prior consent, nor without due acknowledgement. In Europe we can find evidence that the Greeks, in the pre-Roman period, knew about and studied wild orchids. To date up to around 30,000 different species have been identified with more being found every year. Moth orchids ( Phalaenopsis) are the most common type of orchid grown in the UK, found everywhere from garden centres to supermarkets.If like me you are ‘unlucky’ with house plants, try some orchids – not the wild terrestrial orchids found in Britain and Europe, of course, which simply don’t survive being moved indoors or into gardens, but some of the many (mainly tropical) orchids that are available through garden centres and nurseries. If you're growing moth orchids ( Phalaenopsis) you need to grow them in clear containers to allow their green roots to photosynthesise.

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The length of time between watering will vary depending on things like temperature, time of year, humidity, availability of light and state of growth.

The stories of these courageous ‘Plant Hunters’ make exciting reading and I strongly recommend The Plant Hunters by Toby Musgrave, Chris Gardener and Will Musgrave first published as a paperback in 1999 by Seven Dials (ISBN 1-84188-001-9). Many of the plants were used as medicines, although the use of orchids as herbal remedies ceased after the Middle Ages. After that, all you have to do is water the plant once a week by immersing the whole pot in water for several hours – or overnight. Once it has stopped flowering, cut the flower stem down to about half an inch in height and continue in exactly the same way and, guess what? At this point it is best to remove the drip feeder and reduce the watering to a minimum until the plant shows further signs of growth.