Having won the greatest war of the 20th century, President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 ushered in eight years of calm and stability — and in the process opened the golden age of cattleya orchids. First ...

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the American Orchid Society. To commemorate the milestone, a series of vintage orchid images are being re-created from 1940s horticulture magazines. The glossy ...

Having already won the greatest war of the 20th century, President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 ushered in eight years of calm and stability not seen in the United States for 50 years and, in the ...

WAIMEA — Growing orchids can be a delicate matter. In October, his patience paid off when he won the annual Merritt W. Huntington Award from the American Orchid Society (AOS) for white cattleya — also ...

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The Cattleya Orchid (Cattleya spp.) occurs naturally throughout Central and South America and belongs to the largest plant family in the world, Orchidaceae. The Cattleya genus is considered by many to ...