Accommodations Orchids Outdoors

Accommodations Orchids Outdoors
While it is possible to hang orchids from tree branches where they will receive dappled sunlight and shade as breezes blow though their leaves, small pots or a large collection can be better managed if you grow the orchids on benches.

The surface of the bench needs to be slatted and then covered with quarter inch wire hardware cloth so that excess water from rain and the hose can rapidly drain off.

This arrangement also facilities free air circulation, which is what orchids are accustomed to in the rain forest.

For maximum comfort, build the benches at a height that suits yours.

A tall bench for a short gardener – or voce versa – causes physical stress and also diminished the sheer pleasure one should gain from growing orchids.

Depending on the size of your collection and the various sizes and habits of the plants themselves you may elect to build some benches more in the style of staging, like bleachers for plants.

The lowest may be about 12 inches off the ground, the next stood back at 24 inches, a third at 36 inches.

This arrangement works well set against a wall and may invite installing as shelf in the wall itself about 2 feet above the top “bleacher” shelf.

This makes an inviting place to arrange a collection and even tough it is essentially an orchid nursery, in its orderliness, there is a certain appeal.

It is not a good idea to set orchid plants directly on the ground. This is a sure way for the pots to become infested with slugs, snails, sowbugs, and other creatures that love the moist environment under the plants and make a meal of your plants in the night.

Never leave an orchid standing outdoors in a saucer or cachepot which can collect rain water. Unless you immediately on hand to empty the excess, the roots, will soon pettish, and the plant will topple from rot.

In the absence of adequate, regular rainfall, you will need to water your orchid plants outdoors with the same devotion you show when they are housebound.

Also maintain your same consistent schedule for fertilizing the plants – this is vital while orchids are growing outdoors in warm weather.
Accommodations Orchids Outdoors