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With Stock Orchid Photos from Garden Photos .com . Use the online search box below to find high-resolution orchid images for purchase. Best Book on How to Grow Orchids & Get Them to Reflower Searchable Online Stock Orchid Photos, Plant Images, Flower Photography, Stock Garden Photos with high res downloads: Please note: Our stock agency is just beginning to upload images to be searchable online from our picture library. We have many more images in stock not yet online. Send us your want list for even more choices & a personalized lightbox. judywhite, Author/Photographer of Bloom-Again Orchids & the Taylor's Guide to Orchids judywhite is author and photographer of the award-winning Taylor's Guide to Orchids (Houghton Mifflin 1996), as well as Bloom-Again Orchids (Timber Press 2009). A past trustee of the American Orchid Society (AOS), she has earned its highest prize for writing about orchid culture, as well as the AOS Silver Medal for outstanding service to the orchid community. Her photography has graced many books and publications, and has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. A former research biologist and past editor-in-chief of one of the world's first mega-gardening Web sites, Time Life's Virtual Garden, judywhite began her writing life as a humor columnist for Seventeen Magazine. She is married to British garden writer Graham Rice. The pair divides their time between the eastern United States and Northamptonshire, England. She is proud to say she has killed orchids on both sides of the Atlantic. Visit her Web site at gardenphotos.com .

New from judywhite, author of the award-winning book on orchid growing culture Taylor's Guide to Orchids: Bloom-Again Orchids Buy in the USA Buy in the UK 50 Easy Care Orchids That Flower Again & Again & Again Text & Photography by judywhite (Timber Press, November 2009. $14.95) So what are some of judywhite's favorite orchids to recommend as easy to grow and wildly worthwhile? "On nearly anyone's top ten list would be the "Chocolate Orchid" - so dubbed because the fragrance is fantastic - like hot chocolate and vanilla," she says. "Its technical name is Oncidium Sharry Baby. Sharry Baby's orchid culture is easy and adaptable, and it can have hundreds of little red and white blooms for months at a time! The commonest variety is called 'Sweet Fragrance' (seen at left). It also comes in a three-colored form called 'Tricolor', in red, white and yellow, which I think is even nicer." Give Sharry Baby a southern window with morning light, water it once or twice a week, and weekly orchid fertilizer, and people will be trying to steal it, she warns. Another fabulous choice is the starry-bloomed Miltassia Charles M. Fitch, an old hybrid that has stood the test of time. "It's looks kind of like a leopard with its spots," says judywhite, "but in lavender!" Again, this is an easy-to-grow orchid, but with flowers that can reach 5 inches (13 cm) long. It can sit right alongside Oncidium Sharry Baby, with just about the same conditions. Pictured at right is the variety Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Izumi'. "But don't forget the most popular and easiest-to-buy orchids of all, which are the Phalaenopsis Moth Orchids," advises judywhite. "Even though they are everywhere, there's a wonderful reason for that - they are flat out the easiest orchids for most people to grow, and can keep blooming for six months or more at a time." Give Phals an eastern window, so that they get enough light that the leaves are "kind of a grassy green, rather than dark and lush looking", she says. "That'll mean they are in enough light to bloom. Orchids have this habit sometimes of growing just fine but not sending up any flowers - and the classic reason is that they're not in enough light. If yours don't bloom, move them somewhere else!" Back to Home Page of Bloom-Again Orchids.