Orchid addiction: Take good care of your potted phalaenopsis and enjoy the blooms for months

摘要

As anyone who has read The Orchid Thief by Susan Oilcan will tell you, orchids can be highly addictive. It has been suggested that we ate attracted to orchids because they are the most highly evolved plants on earth and humans are the most highly evolved animals. Whatever the reason, people have been cultivating orchids since the 18th century, adding over 100,000 hybrids to the approximately 25,000 species growing in the wild. Of all the orchids, it's the moth orchid (phalaenopsis) that seems to have captured our hearts in recent years. Their arching stems laden with exotic blooms make an elegant indoor accessory.