Fresh Flowers Blooming in Winter

Yes, you can enjoy beautiful blooms even in the middle of winter. Orchids used to be for wealthy people with green houses heated all winter. The hardy varieties.....the ones for sale in your local supermarket or building supply store....can live a long long time and bloom repeatedly.

-The ones above,(see the snow outside the window) are blooming in my kitchen....and they are at least 5 years old! They have bloomed several times and the flowers last 3 to 4 months at a time. How do you do this?

Really, it is easy.....put them in a location that gets a little morning sunlight....these are in a north west facing window. I am a notorious killer of plants by under watering them.....orchids seem to love this! I water them only once every one to two weeks. Let them get fairly dry between waterings.




They grow in tree bark....do not transplant them into soil of any kind. Buy orchid growing media if you want them in a bigger pot.

Do not cut anything off of them unless it turns brown. The flowers will eventually drop but new ones will reappear on the same stalk....a new branch will grow out.


Orchids are a little like birds they take into mines.....they are very sensitive to air quality. One year we had a gas fired space heater in the room....all the blooms fell off in just a couple of days. Once we turned it off....new buds started to appear a few weeks later.

The most amazing thing was seeing orchids growing in trees in the wild in Austrailia! Beautiful!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Location:PRR