Blotchy yellow spots on leaves may be a sign your orchid has an infestation of mealybugs or scale insects. These bugs suck ...

Too much water, too few nutrients, too little light, or too steady temperatures can prevent the plant from using its energy ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Most people put their orchid somewhere in the center of their home, far from a window, because they want to admire it when it ...

BOSTON (CBS) - We have all owned an orchid at one point or another. They are one of the most beautiful flowers and with proper care and growing conditions will thrive for several years in your home, I ...

There was a time when orchid plants were expensive to purchase. The main reason was how difficult it was to propagate orchids. This limited their availability and made them costly. Orchid plants are ...

The orchid family is one of the largest flowering plant families in the world. Orchids can be found on every continent except Antarctica, from the steamy jungles of Asia to the dry deserts of Africa, ...

If you have orchids in your home, make sure to get one job done in November to make sure that they thrive all year round.

It looks like it would gobble up an unsuspecting pollinator but instead the pouch called a labellum is simply nature’s method of getting a pollination program underway. The pollinator flies into the ...

The 40th Annual Kona Daikufuji Orchid Show and sale is Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon. It is a great opportunity to buy a wide variety of locally grown orchids and to connect with longtime growers to ...

I was in a nursery recently and wandered into the greenhouse where they had tropical plants generally grown indoors. There were all the typical foliage plants, such as dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos ...

A friend of mine jokes that she’s a terrible gardener, one who can kill a plant just walking past it at the store. But she loves flowers and wants to grow them, so the best gift to give her is a plant ...