Cattleya

I don't have a garden so a grouping with other tropical plants for humidity is my only option for Cattleya. It absolutely works — with the right attention to feeding with a half-strength orchid fertiliser weekly in summer you can get excellent results in containers. wide hybridisation resulting in …

Someone gave me Cattleya as a birthday gift and I barely knew what it was. Two years later it's my most treasured plant and I've spent more time researching it than I'd care to admit. The key discovery was feeding with a half-strength orchid fertiliser weekly in summer — once that clicked, the plan…

I started with one Cattleya and now have four, all from propagation. The process is straightforward once you understand watering by soaking the pot then letting it drain fully — something I picked up from trial and error rather than any guide. I display them in a bright bathroom with natural humidi…