hello and please help from a newbie
 

hi, my daughter went to an auction three days ago and bought me some plants. 5 orchids. she got them for one dollar each. i've never had an orchid before. fortunately all were labelled. they are catleya. can someone reccomend a beginning book on orchid care. thank you,
chris

Welcome to Orchid Board. Lucky you to get Cattleya orchids for $1.00each! There are a number of orchid books out there, but I'm not sure which would be best for you. However, here are links to the culture sheets for Cattleyas from both the Canadian Orchid Congress and the American Orchid Society. They should give you a good idea of how to care for them:

http://www.canadianorchidcongress.ca...e/cattleya.pdf

Cattleya Culture Sheet

Also by reading posts from the Cattleya section on Orchid Board and seeking advice here, there will be many members with lots of experience to help you.

I agree. A few days ago, I was offered a Gardening Encyclopedia of some sort.... I politely declined and said all I need is an Internet connection. ;)

:waving Hello & wellcome!
Even though I love the paper feeling on my hands, there is no way I could have gained all the information that I have from the Internet through "books". Money, time, space to store, and again money ... Huge obstacles!

Welcome to Orchid Board :welcome:

:welcomeflowers:

thank you all for responding so quickly! i thought she must have got a bargain. i live in northern ontario as did the plants' previous owner. some of these orchids came all the way from hawaii. sorry about the no caps. idon't have a computer and can't figure out where the caps key is on mydaughter's machine.

thank you all again
good gardening
chris

Hi Chris,
No problem. Caps are done by simultaneously pressing SHIFT on the left AND the letter. (SHIFT + c)

Here's an illustration.
Virtual keyboard - a free, on screen and multilingual online tool

WELCOME! :waving

Wow! Orchid advice and tech support all in one forum! Gotta love it!

Welcome to Orchid Board, Chris...and keep us up to date on your cattleyas!

Just so you know...if you were not in Canada I would be checking my orchids right now to see if my daughter sold any to your daughter for $1 ! She is not a fan :)

Thank you, honestly don't you think it's hardly an improvement to put just an arrow on the caps key rather than the syllable caps? Thank you Wild Orchid for the tech support, I actually felt impolite when I couldn't use the capitals.
As for Terracotta's daughter giving away bargains, I know nothing.

Happy Horticulture
Chris