John's Favorite Orchids to Grow

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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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So, what are John’s favorite orchid varieties? John also has a strategy for ensuring that you have an orchid in bloom every day of the year in your home. 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 think you all know by now, if you've been listening this week, that I am a recent
0:15.9	orchid convert, and especially now that I have the greenhouse, I'm going to be getting
0:19.7	into them.
0:20.7	But besides going to Trader Joe's and grabbing a few fail-in-offs as orchids, I don't
0:24.8	really know what other varieties I should be getting into, and that's why John Clemens
0:28.7	is back on the show.
0:30.4	He's the director of gardens at San Diego Botanic Garden.
0:33.0	John, I'm really curious.
0:35.2	You obviously grew these at a very high level, having owned an orchid nursery.
0:40.6	Do you mind giving us a primer on the basic types of orchids, and then maybe we get into
0:45.0	a few of your favorites?
0:46.5	Sure.
0:47.5	Oh, man, I love to talk about orchids, Kevin, so let's jump in.
0:51.2	Let's do it.
0:52.2	One of the things I really like is that with a few plants, you could conceivably have
0:58.4	an orchid in bloom at your house every day of the year.
1:03.1	So one of the tricks to that is, make sure that maybe about once a month, you go and you
1:08.6	buy an orchid in bloom.
1:10.9	What's neat about that is that you're maybe going to spend $10, $20, $30, once a month,
1:17.9	but the orchids will tend to bloom at the same time every year.
1:21.8	So over time, if you do that, let's say every month, you had 12 plants.
1:26.2	You could conceivably have some flowers in your home every month of the year, which,
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