The orchid is just such a plant. Most everyone is enchanted by the perfect, exotic blooms of orchids. No one can deny the longevity of blooms with a single bloom furnishing spectacular beauty for as long as four months. People abandon such plant attributes figuring that growing such a wonderful plant must require extraordinary care and culture. Some orchids can tolerate more abuse than common houseplants and still bloom.
Orchids compose the largest family of flowering plants in the world.
They occur on every continent except Antarctica so obviously there should be one that can be easily grown in Texas. In fact, there are 50 species of orchids plus 2 specific botanical varieties in about 18 genera native to Texas. Many people think that one must have a fancy greenhouse to produce orchids. There are obvious cold tolerant orchids since the orchid is the state flower of Minnesota. Some people think that the soil in Texas is not suitable for orchid growing.