Colorful and elegant with an air of exotic mystery, the orchid isn’t exactly the first ingredient that comes to mind when tossing a salad. Yet orchids have been used for cooking perhaps longer than ...

Saturday seminars: 1 p.m., Orchid culture; 2 p.m., Cattleya painting class; 3 p.m., Mounting orchids and repotting; 4 p.m., Phragmipedium painting class Sunday ...

Orchids - they always seem such fragile, delicate plants and are expensive to buy, so if you make a mistake it's likely to be a costly one. Yet these elegant beauties, which originate from South East ...

The North Shore Orchid Society will present an orchid workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Swampscott Public Library, 59 Burrill St., Swampscott. Refreshments will be ...

When most people think of orchids, the first image that comes to mind may be those bright pink or purple flowers you see in a grocery store that tend to die as soon as you get them home. The second ...

STARTING SEEDS INDOORS: It's time to stop merely dreaming about your summer vegetable garden, and start growing seedlings to plant in it. Many plants, including cabbabe, tomatoes and peppers, can be ...

The hedgerows around Weymouth Wetlands’ Radipole Lake reserve are abundant and colourful now as we move into early summer and this is the time when our orchids start to appear. So far, we’ve counted ...