WAIMEA — Growing orchids can be a delicate matter. In October, his patience paid off when he won the annual Merritt W. Huntington Award from the American Orchid Society (AOS) for white cattleya — also ...

Michelle Obama is the 14th consecutive First Lady to have a cattleya orchid named in her honor (above). Last year, the Melania Trump orchid was earning acclaim in the plant world. Courtesy of Arthur E ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are orchids native to every continent except Antarctica. Their flowers are highly evolved and incredibly showy with blooms ...

The Cattleya Orchid (Cattleya spp.) occurs naturally throughout Central and South America and belongs to the largest plant family in the world, Orchidaceae. The Cattleya genus is considered by many to ...

Orchids are among the world's oldest flower groups and one of the largest, with more than 30,000 species. They emerged about 100 million years ago — 30 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, and ...

I have written before of driving around New England as a kid with my parents. We would stop at antique stores for mom and orchid nurseries for dad. My preference was the nurseries. What I distinctly ...