DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Kathy Boals, the president of Conejo Valley Orchid Society manages two of her mini Cattleya, one of many orchids she grows at her Newbury Park home. (Photo: DAVID ...

Peter Lin, an accredited American Orchid Society judge and noted hybridizer of miniature cattleyas or mini-cats, will present the program at the December meeting of the Riverside/San Bernardino ...

CHICO — North Valley Orchid Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Arts and Crafts Room at Community Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave. Alan Koch will present “Miniatures for the Cattleya Grower on ...

The 18-inch-tall palaenopsis orchids so prevalent in garden centers and grocery stores, have set in our minds a kind of standard size for indoor orchids so it may come as a bit of a surprise that ...

Are you looking for ritzy gifts with lei day and Mothers Day just around the corner, then consider orchids. To most people the word “orchid” immediately brings to mind the purple-flowered cattleyas.

The glamorous corsage days are back, at least on paper, thanks to a new project inspired by images from vintage orchid magazines. “Cattleyas and the Golden Age of Orchid Fashion” is a collection of ...

Cattleyas need abundant though not intense light in order to grow and flower well. About 2,000-3,000-foot candles are satisfactory, and as with many orchids, the early morning sun is very important.

We tend to think of orchids as delicate plants that need to be kept indoors because of their fragility. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most orchids suffer when grown indoors and will refuse ...