BOSTON (CBS) - We have all owned an orchid at one point or another. They are one of the most beautiful flowers and with proper care and growing conditions will thrive for several years in your home, I ...

Orchid lovers spend a lot of time chasing miracle fertilizers, but one of the most effective boosters is already sitting in ...

Blotchy yellow spots on leaves may be a sign your orchid has an infestation of mealybugs or scale insects. These bugs suck ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

There was a time when orchid plants were expensive to purchase. The main reason was how difficult it was to propagate orchids. This limited their availability and made them costly. Orchid plants are ...

The 40th Annual Kona Daikufuji Orchid Show and sale is Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon. It is a great opportunity to buy a wide variety of locally grown orchids and to connect with longtime growers to ...

The orchid family is one of the largest flowering plant families in the world. Orchids can be found on every continent except Antarctica, from the steamy jungles of Asia to the dry deserts of Africa, ...

A friend of mine jokes that she’s a terrible gardener, one who can kill a plant just walking past it at the store. But she loves flowers and wants to grow them, so the best gift to give her is a plant ...

It looks like it would gobble up an unsuspecting pollinator but instead the pouch called a labellum is simply nature’s method of getting a pollination program underway. The pollinator flies into the ...

I was in a nursery recently and wandered into the greenhouse where they had tropical plants generally grown indoors. There were all the typical foliage plants, such as dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos ...

Sessions on Louisiana's Super Plants and growing orchids without a greenhouse are the topics for talks on Sept. 2 hosted by the East Baton Rouge Master Gardener Association. The talks — each about an ...