The orchids are masterpieces of the nature that bloom in full winter.
They are cultivated for the spectacular beauty of their flowers by the delicate perfume and by the velvety petals.
They are symbol of the refinement and the luxury, you can give them in sign of elegance and sensuality.
They also have a notable ornamental value and, cultivated in special vases or suspended baskets, they can create in our apartments a green angle of particular suggestion.
In Italy they are around 85 spontaneous kinds with very different habitat.
For the most greater part they have aerial roots : they live generally on branches and trunks of other plants or on rocks covered by a thin layer of vegetable fragments, musks and lichens; other kinds are terrestrial and they are diffused in places with moderate climate or underground and seeds aquatic.
It' s possible to maintain the splendid plants in the time, following simple shrewdness:

• they must not be bathed as the other plants: the soil is made of bark of tree so you have to water them in a few minutes in more because you needs to do so that the water penetrate in the bits of bark.
  
  
• To grow in perfect way they need to be submitted to the sudden change: when they are in flower it's necerrary that the temperature of the night is inferior than at least six degrees to that of the day.
  
  
• They are native from the tropical or subtropical places so they need of damp climate: you can use a greater and more depth saucer full of balls of expanded clay and you must pour half glass of water every day.
  
  
• If you receive an orchid plant in a plastic vase, you have to leave it there for two years.
  
  
• They are demanding in fact of manuring: they must be nourish more than other plants.