Reduce watering in autumn, and move plants to a bright windowsill or porch, where they can remain cool and dry until spring. Different types of orchid need slightly different care, so it can be useful to keep the plant label after purchase. Once it has stopped flowering, cut the flower stem down to about half an inch in height and continue in exactly the same way and, guess what?

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Many of the plants were used as medicines, although the use of orchids as herbal remedies ceased after the Middle Ages. To date up to around 30,000 different species have been identified with more being found every year.Once you have gained a bit of confidence, you can move on and try some of the other types of orchids available in nurseries. Moth orchids flower multiple times on one stem, so cut off faded flowers just above the next flower bud.

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Place the plant in a warm (anything above 15 degrees C is fine) and draft-free room in indirect light – not on a window-ledge that gets direct sunlight all day. In more recent times a burgeoning interest in orchids was stimulated by the explorers bringing back plants of all kinds from their journeys, which were mainly to Europe until the mid-sixteenth century when America was discovered and colonised. Terrestrial orchids are those that grow on the ground, and this applies to our European species that grow in meadows, fields and mountain sides etc.

The length of time between watering will vary depending on things like temperature, time of year, humidity, availability of light and state of growth. Moth orchids ( Phalaenopsis) are the most common type of orchid grown in the UK, found everywhere from garden centres to supermarkets. To flower they need a distinct drop in temperature between day and night from mid- to late summer – you achieve this by putting the plants outside from June to September. Many wealthy individuals sponsored trips to all manner of remote and dangerous places so that they could be the first to show off an exotic new discovery in their glasshouses or gardens.