[.ca] Taylor's Guide to Orchids: More Than 300 Orchids, ... (ISBN 0395677262)

The best Orchid book around:
If you just got your first Orchid and want to learn how to care for it or you've been collecting for years, this is a "MUST HAVE" book. I have many Orchid books and none come close to this one for readability and useful information. The photos are also wonderful. The person I bought many of my Orchids from carries this book in her back pocket and despite being incredibly knowledgeable, refers to it several times ever day. You can't go wrong buying this book.

This One Is a Must!!:
I love this little book and use it all the time. It has so much information packed into it's compact format. The color photos are beautiful and show great detail. The basic orchid growing information is helpful without being too technical and the specifics about each orchid are very useful in deciding if that orchid you just have to have will really stand a chance in your own growing situation. As Orchids host at BellaOnline.com, I highly recommend this book to all orchid lovers at any level of experience.

Perfect for Orchid Beginners!:
I recently acquired my first orchid from my mother who "couldn't get the darned thing to bloom again". So I adopted it. With the help of this book I discovered that it is a Phalaenopsis orchid that needed a little more water and better light. It is now very near blooming. Since then I've added 2 other orchids to my collection. This book is fantastic, the photos are beautiful, and the care tips have been an invaluable resource to a beginner like myself.

Likes and Dislikes:
This is book is wonderful, no doubt and is a good book, that is, if you can find the orchid you are looking for in the book. This book has wonderful pictures and information, but only for those that are in the book. I find that this book is limited in the number of species, but it is great in that it actually has pictures and descriptions of certain hybrids. I have a Lycaste Aquila 'Detente' because of this book. The picture and the description inspired me to get this plant. The growing tips are great, but again, only for the orchids that are written about in the book.

THE orchid book to buy!:
Beautiful color photos and detailed growing information...mineis heavily highlighted and dogeared as I use it as a constantreference. The BEST part is the dimensional description next to the photos telling ACTUAL PLANT AND FLOWER SIZE, as we all know how deceiving photos can be!