Add Spectacular Color To
Your Outside Garden

Look around at your outside garden. Can it use more color? Can it use more fragrance?  Check out these garden tips and then consider that orchids can easily provide these and more to your garden.

There are certain things you need to observe before adding orchids to the garden.

First, choose the outside orchid plants that grow well and these include:

  • Cattleyas - the hybrids and especially those with the Laelia orchids

  • Cymbidiums - are low temperature tolerant

  • Epidendrums - these can use full sun and also are temperature tolerant

  • Dendrobiums

  • Paphiopedilums - the green leaf variety

Light

most orchids in outdoor gardens do not need full sunlight. In fact, most do best in a bright area with indirect sunlight or sunlight through leaves of trees. Paphs prefer shaded areas. Whereas epidendrums and cymbidiums can get mostly full sun.

Humidity

Generally humidity is not a problem ingardens except in the Southeast region of the US where it is dry.

Temperature

Most outside orchids need the temperature change between day and nught to help produce those fragrant flowers. This is the same when they are in-doors. Except cymbidiums which can withstand temps to almost freezing. Most orchids can remain outside as long as the night temps is about 50 degree F.

Fertilizer

Like the old adage, fertilize weakly (1/2 to 1/4 strength) weekly.

Watering

Your orchids in the outside garden actually will be dependent on how much rainfall and sunlight and the ambient temperature. If there has been a good rainfall during the week the plants will not need to be watered but if it has been hot and dry there may be a need to water up to twice a week or even mist daily in the morning.

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