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Orchids for your garden

The exotic beauty of orchids in your own garden? This is possible, as these exuberant flowers are not only meant for inside use.
With the easy, frost-resistant Garden Orchid you can bring the tropics into your back garden.
Select the shape, colour and height you like most of this special family of garden orchids!

Whatever variant you decide to plant, at the first rays of the sun in spring the shoots sprout from the ground.
They slowly unfurl their wonderful flowers, which you will be able to enjoy for weeks. This perennial plant keeps forming
new shoots underground, so you can expect more fabulous flowers every year, even in the darkest corner of your garden.

Where to grow in the garden

Growth & Flowering

Each Garden Orchid loves a place in the shade, so that only the morning sun wakes it with kisses. A spot where bushes like shrubs throw their shadow is ideal. Damp soil, like the side of a pond, is less suitable. A Garden Orchid is good company for small hosta, lilies of the valley, ferns and pulsatilla. Don’t let its exotic appearance fool you: the plant generally suffers more from warm than from cold temperatures. Do you prefer an orchid in the house? Then have a look at the Pleione variety.
In full bloom

Growth & Flowering

From pristine white to pink, yellow and almost black. As large as your hand or reaching your knee. From lovely, small flowers to considerable eye-catchers: a Garden Orchid offers you permanent joy. For optimal growth, the first spring is particularly important. Then, the plant will adapt to your garden climate. Most types flower each year between April and June. After flowering, the plant starts to hibernate. The Pleione, which is perfectly suitable for outside, can be put back in the garden or in a pot outside after flowering to start its hibernation.
Perfect planting

Growth & Flowering

You can plant your Garden Orchid in the autumn when the plant hibernates or in the spring after the severe frost. Garden Orchid is keen on sandy or clayey soil without peat or potting compost. If your garden soil is quite firm, you can mix it with some sand or clay granules. Plant your Garden Orchid without the pot in a spacious hole and hold the top of the root ball at the same level as the ground surface. Let the root ball make good contact with the garden soil and treat the plant afterwards to a large irrigation session. In its first spring, the Garden Orchid likes a lot of water. Afterwards, the plant becomes accustomed to its new environment and you can irrigate it with the other garden plants.
Waking up after the winter

Growth & Flowering

The Garden Orchid is a perennial, frost-resistant plant that is easy to maintain. While hibernating, this garden orchid withstands temperatures of up to -20 °C. In the winter, there is no need to cover the plant. If you prefer to do so, then use tree bark instead of peat. The plant not only withstands severe frost but even needs the winter cold in order to form more shoots the next spring; shoots that will produce more special flowers year after year and keep enchanting your garden with exotic beauty.

In nature

Assortment

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PLEIONE

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CYPRIPEDIUM

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CALANTHE

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BLETILLA

Pleione

Cypripedium

Calanthe

Bletilla

Where to buy?

You can find Garden Orchids in the spring, when the plant is hibernating, at the better garden centres and florists,
such as Intratuin (Netherlands), OhGreen (Belgium), Jardiland (France) and Blomsterlandet (Sweden).

Or buy your Garden Orchid online:

The Netherlands and Belgium:

Tuinorchidee webshop

Other countries:

Gartenwerkstatt Schreiner

Orchids for your garden

Where to grow in the garden

In full bloom

Perfect planting

Waking up after the winter

In nature