While many will thrive in a pot, not every kind of orchid requires soil. Using a simple technique, you can grow healthy ...

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession. By Sarah Bilston. Harvard University Press; 400 pages; $29.95 and £24.95. I n 1818 an orchid was sent from Brazil to Britain.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In September 1890, William Digance, the son of an impoverished farmer from Surrey, set off for Brazil to hunt orchids. Full of excitement and bravado, the 25 ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – instead of stretching outward when pulled.

Orchid SRQ offers two intimate seatings per evening when in operation — typically at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. — with limited availability to preserve the personalized nature of the experience.

From hanging them to caring for your orchids in order to maintain the spa vibe, here's Jack's step-by-step method to bring this trend into your own bathroom.. Step 1 — Choose the location ...

Orchids burst from a row of colorful arches with sharp edges in the exhibition “The Orchid Show: Mexican Modernism,” at the New York Botanical Garden.

For the best results, orchid plants are safest in hanging baskets outside during warm weather. Sari elaborated: "You just put the orchids with their containers into a basket." ...

In a further nod to MacDonald-Balasia’s heritage, the chef Angel Dimayuga, 39, transformed the space into a Zen garden for the party. With help from the production assistant Anna Kernecker, 35 ...

Britain’s rarest flower, the ghost orchid, has made an extraordinary return to the wild after 15 years of being virtually unseen. Last spotted in 2009 and even declared extinct in the UK, this ...

Makino Tomitaro, a towering figure in Japanese botany, named around 1,000 species and discovered about 600 new plants between 1887 and 1957. Among his notable discoveries was the diminutive orchid ...