Buying orchids online?

[JackiBlu]

Taxes vs shipping vs orchids for your area.

Since I am just addicted and not an expert on orchids, I want to be sure that the orchids I buy are ones that can easily be cared for for my area. Even the Lowes and HD's will stock up on plants of all sorts that often times can not be grown here without a lot of work. Or they shouldn't be sold here coz of their need for water or they belong to the plant list that the state is erradicating from Florida for one reason or another.

With the way orchids are handled & the work involved in them I'd bank on the orchid being enviroment friendly for the local area. I'd bet it would be difficult to find, say orchids that can't handle temps over 75 here in South Florida. Not to say there isn't some one out there who isn't selling them to some one who 1 - doesn't know better or 2 - a collector of sorts someone who has a climate controlled GH.

As for the taxes.. yeah, that does tend to add up @ 6.5% here in this state (a regressive tax no less) but unless I"m looking for something special that a grower in Florida can't get, then I may go out of state, but not too far.

Am I way off base here?? Just my theory