Amateur Gardening

How to care for moth orchids

You can listen to Steve on alternate Sundays 10am-2pm on BBC Radio Kent’s Sunday Gardening (BBC Local)

THERE was a time, not that long ago, when orchids were grown only by specialist nurseries, to be sold at high prices and mainly to collectors who would show off their exotic blooms to anyone they wished to impress. The advent of micropropagation techniques changed all this and made it possible to produce some species of orchids

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