Description: The Orchid List. A catalog of the orchids we grow at RVO.
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Well, the first question upon finding this site might be “What is the Orchid List?” The Orchid List is simply our attempt at creating a living list of the beautiful (and sometimes not so beautiful) orchids we grow here in our greenhouse called RVO. Our combined orchid growing experience accounts for over 27 years of caring for these mysterious and often frustrating and confusing plants. In all that time, we have had wonderful successes and miserable failures, but we have never *really* kept up with exact
Louis and I started growing orchids together in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1995. Since that time, we have really taken our hobby to the next level. In 1996, we moved to Arkansas were I started a new job and Louis finished his undergraduate work. Once we found a place to live, the first thing we had to do was to find a way to procect our orchids from the sun.. At first it was fairly easy. Since it was August in Arkansas, we took some shade cloth and made a ‘tent’ under which we placed our various orchi
Anyway, we built a tent. This worked for about three months and then it started getting cold. We both knew that our orchids would need to be provided with warmth if they were going to make it through the winter months. Our new home did not have any place for the orchids. The windows were all fairly small (why didn’t we think of this when buying a place??) and did not let in much light. We had to find another solution. So, we took some plastic and wrapped a small gazebo that was on the property. We pl