Whoever decided to give the name narcissus to a flower that many of us call a daffodil obviously did not have a marketing degree. The orchid, on the other hand, does not carry the baggage of an ...

An Orange County orchid boom is under way, spurred by the region's proximity to major flower markets in Manhattan and Boston and plentiful, affordable, agriculturally zoned land. United Orchids, one ...

Every rare now and then, when the sky is dark and the moon is full and the wolves are howling, I get the urge to... Grow an orchid. The latest frightening occurrence arose this week when I heard the ...

Chang Ter-shi tends to his orchids in Nanjing county, Fujian. [Photo/China Daily] For nearly two decades, Chang Ter-shi has run the orchid business his father founded in Nanjing county, Fujian ...

The language of orchid growers is poetically technical. Five-syllable Latin words roll off Dorcas Brogdon’s tongue with the ease of ancient botanist Pliny the Elder. “Just don’t ask me to spell them,” ...

70 Years of Orchids in San Diego A few dozen adults crowd around tables in a large conference room at the Scottish Rite Center in Mission Valley. At the front of the room a grey-haired woman shouts a ...

If the prospect of a warm, sunny Saturday makes your fingers itch to dig in the dirt with something a bit more exotic than the standard petunias, the Terrebonne Orchid Society might be able to satisfy ...

Since the start of US President Donald Trump's global trade war, Taiwanese orchid grower Lee Tsang-yu has watched tariffs on his seedlings shoot from nothing to 20 percent. But, after weathering many ...

BANGKOK -- The protectionist climate in the U.S. is pushing Thai orchid exporters to seek more fertile ground in China, in another example of how trade tensions can reshape markets of all kinds.

People forget what flowers look like during these dog days of winter. That’s why each February, members of the Niagara Frontier Orchid Society roll out hundreds of their dazzling aromatic blooms. Not ...

Orchid growers in Nakhon Pathom gave out free bouquets after finding themselves overstocked as flower exports to China shrivel under the spread of the coronavirus. The Thai Orchid Entrepreneurs ...