Orchid Special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With the grand opening of Wisley’s Orchid House this past month and the publication of The Orchid Review – our annual orchid yearbook – within reach, we thought it the perfect time for another Orchid Special. In this week’s show, we chat with Julian Shaw, who heads the International Orchid Register, Reshma Lobo, a London-based jewel orchid grower, Art Chadwick who breeds the cattleyas named for American First Ladies, and Kevin Wigley, who’s transformed a room in his house into an orchid sanctuary. Links: The Orchid Review The International Orchid Register Ugly Plantling Chadwick & Sons The Orchid Committee

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0:33.6	So I'm always being fascinated by things like epiphytes.
0:36.6	I just find it amazing that plants can survive, completely in the air without any roots in the soil.
0:41.3	That's Christopher Young, a garden manager at RHS Garden Wisley.
0:45.3	Right here we have what we call like a Vanda hybrid.
0:48.3	So obviously the flower is really spectacular. You've got this lovely kind of purple and speckling to it.
0:53.3	But I just find the structure of the roots even more fascinating. this lovely kind of purple and speckling to it. But I just find the
0:54.5	structure of the roots even more fascinating. So you kind of see here, they're starting to go
0:58.7	a bit white. That's when they're starting to become a little bit more dehydrated. They go white.
1:02.5	When you're watered them, they turn this lovely green colour. I just, yeah, I just find them
1:06.8	really fascinating. We're standing in Wisley's brand new orchid house, which is chock full
1:12.6	of plants from the RHS's vast
1:14.6	orchid collection. There are epiphytic
1:16.8	orchids, as Christopher mentioned, with
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