Get Started Caring for Orchids

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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New to orchids? John Clements, Director of Gardens at the San Diego Botanic Garden, walks us through a comprehensive care guide for orchids. Connect with John Clements: John Clements has been a horticultural professional for 46 years. Former nursery owner, gardener and koi pond builder to the rich and famous, horticulturist, commercial fruit tree farmer, garden writer, agricultural historian, co-administrator of the San Diego Gardener Facebook group, and the icing on the cake, is Director of Gardens at the 37-acre San Diego Botanic Garden. LinkedIn Website Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have never grown orchids aside from receiving them as a gift maybe at a birthday party or
0:18.7	some sort of celebratory occasion and oftentimes I was joking with with John who's our guest
0:24.3	this week, the director of gardens at San Diego Botanic Garden that you know they're probably
0:28.4	from Trader Joe's right the ones that that are given to you because Trader Joe's very popular
0:32.6	but John after seeing the world of orchids exhibit I really want to get into them and now I have
0:38.0	a greenhouse right so I think I have a little bit more capability to grow them so for those of us
0:43.2	who have never really gotten into them at all do you mind just starting us off with a primer on
0:50.4	what makes them so special? Well I think one of the things that makes orchids really special is
0:57.3	that they do have this legacy of rarity you know that these were plants that were grown by
1:06.7	wealthy wealthy people you know it would be the DuPonts it would be royalty people that were
1:14.5	you know movers and shakers had these plants nobody else could afford them and really now
1:19.3	you and I can have plants that were previously unobtainable and so there is this mystique
1:26.7	that goes along with orchids and and they are cool the nice thing about many kinds of orchids is
1:32.5	that you can have a plant that can be in bloom for months at a time you know a phalanopsis
1:38.6	or a symbidium they really last a long time and and so you have that mystique factor you have the
1:45.1	fact that they're just flat out beautiful and that they can have a really extended bloom period and
1:50.8	that's one of the things I like about them. I think what's so interesting to me is that bloom period
1:56.8	because certainly in the edible garden world you're not getting a bloom lasting that long at all
2:01.6	and if you are it's probably because it's going to be forming a fruit behind it and off you go to
2:05.7	the kitchen is it okay if I wanted to get started can I just go to Trader Joe's or is that not a great
2:12.0	place to source them? Trader Joe's is a great place to get orchids you know it just a little
2:18.1	background on phalanopsis which if you go to the Trader Joe's 90% of the orchids you're going
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