Last week I wrote about orchids doing best when grown in containers, that confinement does them good. Well, wouldn’t you know it? Just a few days after writing those words I saw a plant I had never ...

That there's a daylily called 'Exploded Pumpkin' is arresting enough, but we still noticed, passing a catalog around the breakfast table, that many of the Bulb Lady's offerings aren't bulbs. Corms, ...

In Turkey, winter is the season of salep. In the streets, peddlers pushing carts sell the hot, milky drink traditionally made from ground orchid tubers. Between classes, students warm their cold ...

It wouldn't be a good idea to pull your Phalaenopsis or Oncidium orchids from their pots in the living room in an attempt to make salep (also spelled sahlab and sa'alab). For one thing, committing ...