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Thai
Orchid
Nursery
& Garden
in
Phuket
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Probably more than 1000
different of them grow
somewhere between the dark
hill forests of
northern Thailand and the southern border to Malaysia. Beautiful and
colorful even on remote islands this flowers can be found, today
the focus is on hybrid plants.
As with many other flora and
fauna , deforestation and poaching took a heavy toll. Some projects in Thailand are dedicated to reintroduce
species into the former environment or as a hybrid into a
great garden or in a nursery, like the
in Phuket at Chalong.
Thailand is the largest exporter of fresh orchids on the
globe and
the plants can
be pick up for quite
low prices in nurseries, florists and flower shops.
Nursery in
Phuket also do
fresh flower
delivery right to your
hotel or
beach
resort.
There are
also flower
shops at many roads where they sell
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bouquets and
fresh cut
bundles.
Many nursery also do
wholesale to
anywhere in
the world,
that
includes
seeds and
seedlings in
sterilized
bottles.
The best
place for a
virtual
orchid show
is the
nursery of
a Thai
grower. They
usually have
plenty of
different
types and
colors such
as blue
plants,
cattleya,
cymbidium,
dendrobium, oncidium,
phalaenopsis, vanda and
others.
At this
garden or nursery you are in a real orchid world, a great
source with plenty of different plants for sale. This is a sea of
colors for wonderful photos and videos
of exotic beauties. There is a wide variety as
you can see in the pictures here.
This could be
just
the
right
thing
to
bring
home
from
your
vacation
at a
nice beach resort. They will prepare the flowers for
transport and that they stay ok for around 2 weeks, this
costs no add on charges. Arranged
with
some
more
plants
this
will
give
a
beautiful
and
colorful bouquet, also seedlings in steralized flasks are
available. |

Cut
orchid bouquet |
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This
are
a
perfect
gift
with a
great
display
of
shapes
and
colors,
actually the best is be a bit selfish and make yourself a
gift you will never regret.
The
beautiful
shape
and
inherent
grace
of
them
makes
these
exotic
flowers
real
fascinating.
Probably
the
most
striking
are
the
colors.
It’s
a
painter's
palette
with
all
shades
but
black.
Typical
is
pink,
yellow,
blue,
green,
purple,
red
and
creams
colors,
plus
variants
of
them.
Take
some
of
them,
put
some
green
foliage
around
and
you
have
a
great
multicolor bouquet
for
a
couple
of
days.
If
you
are
not
at
home
and cant
find
a
vase
just
take
a
plastic
water
bottle,
cut
off
the
upper
25%
and
use
it
as a
vase.
Some
Vanda
Orchids
from
a
Thai
Nursery
Vandas
are
very
popular
because
they
have
a
large
flower
and
good
saturated
colors.
Everyone
can
easily
see
here
is
something
exiting,
no
teeny
winy
plastic. |
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Cut Thai dendrobium from a nursery in white, purple and yellow. |

Buy fresh orchid from the nursery and have some happy days. |
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Thai nursery with red vanda and white dendrobium |

Purple bloom |

Because of the big leaves and vibrant colors vandas are in great demand. |
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Vanda purple and violet

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This plants give beautiful pictures as you can
see here. Since Vandas are
very popular in any Thai nursery, you can find a good collection
at almost every grower in the country.
To raise
them
is not difficult,
it just needs some care time and
passion since some of them
need up to four years to blossom first time.
A nurseries usually have several
dozens of great hybrids available
including vanda.
Speaking in general, species are not for export and hybrids
are the ones raised in the nursery. The nursery usually also do
wholesale. |

Red and orange
flowers

Vanda flower in pink red and yellow |
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Pink Vanda |

glowing |

Orange flower from the laboratory |

in the tropical garden |
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This
are some of the most beautiful plants in the
world, especially Thailand is well known
to be home of plenty of different plants growing in the the mountain jungle of
the north and west.
Today no need to hunt in the
jungle just visit a shop or a
nursery they offer all
kind of very attractive plants, either as
cut flower or in the pot plus seedlings in the sterile flask to take home. Popular
are blue,
mainly
vanda,
cattleya
in all kind of colors and other. Somehow this
is not cheap stuff,
they always go for about 8 - 15 US $. Cut
flower
are cheaper and also last for 2 - 3 weeks at
home, lets say in Europe with proper care. |
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Wild Orchids on Mangroves

Cymbidium photo
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Also the
islands of the
Andaman Sea in
southern Thailand
have a
population of this plants.
On the islands
they usually grow either on mangroves or on the
limestone rocks, on both places they are
difficult to access. It is possible to see
them but luckily they cant be taken, this is
ideal against poachers.
Plenty varieties are available like
cymbidium,
dendrobium,
cattleya,
oncidium and other
exotic plants. They
come in all colors, just look at the pictures here, we also made a
video
for you.
Some
Cattleya
Cattleya can bloom more than once per year.
You can buy |

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With orange and green colors |

Cattleya orange and yellow
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White and Purple
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and
take them with you after your vacation and enjoy them for a
while, they are probably the most easiest to care for the
just need the right water, light and fertilizer.
Most species grow in South America's
rain forests , at Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and
Mexico and in the Andes from altitudes near sea level
to high altitudes of about 3000 meters. But as you can
see here they also grow fine in the nursery, means no need
for poaching.
They are epiphytes or air plants, means
they are used to being partly covered by the canopy of the
rain forest and get considerable humidity out of the air to
grow. |

Two yellow cattleya |
Some
Dendrobium
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Blue Thai orchid
such
as
cattleya
and
cut orchids
plus
cymbidium,
dendrobium
and
other
exotics
flowers.

On a palm tree |
Dendrobiums are
more or less a Thai national flower.
They
are used and displayed everywhere in the country. At table or cocktail plus
other drink decoration in
the restaurant, a give away for every female passenger
on
every flight of
Thai International.
Also part in many creative decoration, either as
real plants or as a picture.
Thailand is probably one of the best flower sources
worldwide. |

For decoration |
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Dendrobium pink and white |

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White Dendrobium |


They
are available in flower shops on the
roadside and on
every flower market.
To keep them happy supply enough
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Dendrobium flower
nursery
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water and dilute some fertilizer into the water,
if they dry out they die. They like to be planted in small
pots
with their roots freely hanging down..
For
care of dendrobium
orchids pls. check here.
Over
thousand known species of dendrobiums are
already known and from time to time new species
are discovered in e.g. in the remote highlands
of New Guinea, this give them position number 2
after Bulbophyllum.
A typical setting is to be placed into the shell of a
coconut and attached to a palm tree or maybe
placed into a bark and fixed to a other tree. |
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Mokara Orchids

Yellow flower |

Mokara Orange |

Mokara Yellow |
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