Mitch Hedberg once joked, “When someone hands you a flyer, it’s like they’re saying, ‘Here, you throw this away.’” With an orchid, it’s more like: “Here, you try not to kill this.” Look up “how to ...

I didn’t really have an opinion about orchids, other than knowing you have to be really into houseplants to keep them alive, until reading “The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession” by ...

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 ...

OK, how many of you have brought home an exquisite, blooming orchid from the supermarket (or received one as a gift), then watched it die after a few weeks? It’s not really your fault, says Dan ...

Inside Hershey Gardens’ conservatory, there are orchids big enough to fill a van, orchids small enough to search for with a magnifying glass, old orchids, new orchids, black orchids and white orchids.

Longwood Garden’s annual Orchid Extravaganza once again features a 17-foot tall orchid curtain that patrons can walk through to see 250 blooming orchid plants. Which got us to thinking: If you can ...

In The Orchid Thief, writer Susan Orlean describes the cultlike devotion that these exotic-looking flowers inspire among plant collectors. One reason, in addition to their beauty, that orchids are so ...

Orchids are considered elite, the domain of the rich and famous. Their aristocratic roots have put them out of reach of ordinary folks. Not so, says Plato Mathews. Once the manager of a Norfolk sports ...