Vandas : Their Botany, History, and Culture
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Now available in paperback! Modern vandas are among the more spectacular cultivated orchids, offering a dramatic range of colors as well as long-lasting, frequent-blooming flowers. Drawing on 40 years of practical experience, the author offers a comprehensive horticultural treatment that includes the botany, breeding, and cultivation of vandas. More than 100 beautiful color photographs augment the work. Addressing the concerns of amateur growers, botanists, and professional horticulturists alike, this thorough and accurate account is a must for all orchid fanciers.
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Modern vandas are the most spectacular of all cultivated orchids, offering a kaleidoscopic range of colors and often blooming six times a year or more with flowers lasting up to eight weeks. This book presents for the first time a history of the introduction of Vanda species and an accurate modern scientific view of the genus, including exciting developments in hybridization. Drawing on 40 years of practical experience, the author offers a comprehensive horticultural treatment that includes the botany, breeding, care, and cultivation of vandas. All major diseases and pests and their control are discussed. Written for the advanced horticulturist, Vandas addresses not only the culture for temperate greenhouses, but also that for tropical and subtropical gardens and shade houses, the places where these orchids are most commonly grown.
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Vandas : Their Botany, History, and Culture
Vandas: Their Botany, History, and Culture: Their Botany, History, and Culture,Martin R. Motes,Alan L. Hoffman,Timber Press,0881926639,Flowers - Orchids,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,Orchid culture,Vanda,Flowers
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