Expanding your orchid collection

[Myrle Diefendorf]

This nice healthy orchid came from Lowe's in one of those plastic baggies in the houseplant orchid area. It was grown by H &R Nurseries in Hawaii and is named Epidendrum Green Hornet. I potted it in a slatted wood basket in part bark, part sphagnum. It hangs on my back porch and gets morning sun, water by the hose a couple times a week, and orchid fertilizer every couple weeks by being soaked in a bucket. It needs to come inside before frost.