Plant care - tricks, secrets and ideas

Specii populare de Hoya (floarea de ceara)
Popular species of Hoya (wax flower) - care guide
Hoya propagation Hoya can be grown both from seeds and cuttings. The easiest and fastest method is the last one. A branch with 1-3 nodes is cut from the mature... Read more...
Dendrobium Nora Tokunaga
Dendrobium Nora Tokunaga - care instructions and characteristics
Dendrobium Nora Tokunaga - Primary hybrid consisting of two species that both belong to the Latouria section, and are endemic to Papua - New Guinea, has a relatively similar appearance... Read more...
Rossioglossum Rawdon Jester
Rossioglossum Rawdon Jester - care instructions
Rawdon Jester is a naturally occurring hybrid between the botanical species R. grande and R. williamsianum, but which is sterile, as happens with most natural hybrids. Vigorous taxon, which produces... Read more...
Dendrobium Stardust 'Firebird'
Dendrobium Stardust - characteristics and care guide
A complex, epiphytic, multispecific hybrid, made by successive additions of botanical species, Dendrobium stardust has several color varieties, the most common in the specialty trade being Firebird and Chiyomi, and... Read more...
Orhidee Stanhopea
Stanhopea orchids - characteristics and care guide
The genus Stanhopea, previously also known as Ceratochilus, Stanhopeastrum, Gerlachia or Tadeastrum, belongs to the Orchidaceae family and was described by William Jackson Hooker in 1829, who named the genus... Read more...
Dinema (Epidendrum) Polybulbon
Dinema (Epidendrum) polybulbon - Characteristics and Care Instructions
Epidendrum (Dinema) Polybulbon Lindl. 1826 is a botanical species described by Lindley in 1826, frequently assigned to the genera Epidendrum or Encyclia, relatively recently assigned to the monospecific genus (with... Read more...
Lycaste Skinnerii var. Alba
Lycaste skinnerii - Characteristics and Care Instructions
Lycaste skinneri, also known as Lycaste virginalis, is an epiphytic species, originally from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, with distribution at altitudes of 1650 meters above sea level. The... Read more...
Coelogyne Cristata
Coelogyne Cristata - Characteristics and Care Instructions
Coelogyne cristata is an epiphytic orchid that comes from the cold and humid areas of Vietnam and the eastern Himalayas. Because it blooms every spring, before the snow melts, it... Read more...
Coelogyne Glandulosa
Coelogyne Glandulosa - Characteristics and Care Instructions
The generic name, of Greek origin, is made up of Kolos - empty, without content, and gyne - woman, alluding to the stigma of the flowers, which has a concavity.... Read more...
Akadama - Substratul ideal pentru bonsai
Akadama - The ideal substrate for bonsai
A special substrate, particularly appreciated by bonsai enthusiasts, akadama is actually the contraction of the Japanese phrase aka dama tsuchi (aka = red, dama = ball, ball, tsuchi = earth),... Read more...
Orhidee Lycaste
Lycaste orchids - characteristics and care guide
Named by Lindley in 1843, genus Lycaste, abbreviated Lyc. in horticulture, probably derives its name from that of a maenad, companion of the god Dionysus, from Greek mythology . It... Read more...
Dendrobium Roongkamol Vejvarut
Dendrobium Roongkamol Vejvarut - care guide and characteristics
Secondary hybrid obtained by the Thai breeder Kirit Vejvarut by crossing the primary hybrid Dendrobium Dawn Maree created and registered by J. Burrows in 1983 (Dendrobium formosum as seminal parent... Read more...