reading suggestions

[lafayette52]

Hi again, I would like to buy a really good reference book to help me as a beginner. I already have the Ortho. What is your favorite and why? Someone had suggested the Botanica. Thanks Laura

[Vivienne]

I have a book which my father sent me that I read through almost every other day. In addition, I have printed cultyre sheets and threads from this forum for additional information.

"Orchids: care and cultivation" by Gerald Leroy-Terquem & Jean Parisot

[Sharyn]

Here's a link with lots of suggestions.

http://www.orchidgeeks.com/forum/new...mend+good+book

[tom499]

That is the exact book i have vivienne i bought it for the photos alone It is such a well done book, contains plenty of side info and such, i love it

[Vivienne]

Small World Tom. Perhaps my mother (it was her book before she passed) picked it up while in England. My entire family is from England... I was the first one born in the US.

Agreed - the photos are wonderful and I always run to it when I get a 'first' for my collection.

[Tobi]

The Ortho books are great. I also have "Growing Orchids" by Brian and Wilma
Rittershausen. It's got everything from culture & cultivation, growing outside
and under glass to mounting, pest and diseases, growing media and a great
directory of popular orchids.