Vandas
Subtitle: Their Botany, History and Culture
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: June 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780881923766
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Gardening: plants; Horticulture; Ornamental Plants; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening/Plants; Vanda; Flowers - Orchids; Life Sciences - Botany; Gardening / Flowers / Orchids; ORCHIDS; Orchid culture
First sentence: Seventeenth-century travelers to the Far East were the first foreign observers to describe vandas for the western world.
Description: Modern vandas are the most spectacular of all cultivated orchids, offering a kaleidoscopic range of colors and often blooming six times a year or more with flowers lasting up to eight weeks.

This book presents for the first time a history of the introduction of Vanda species and an accurate modern scientific view of the genus, including exciting developments in hybridization. Drawing on 40 years of practical experience, the author offers a comprehensive horticultural treatment that includes the botany, breeding, care, and cultivation of vandas. All major diseases and pests and their control are discussed.

Written for the advanced horticulturist, Vandas addresses not only the culture for temperate greenhouses, but also that for tropical and subtropical gardens and shade houses, the places where these orchids are most commonly grown.