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Links to Other Orchid Sites

 


GLOBAL APPEAL

American Orchid Society – Founded in 1921 “for the purpose of aiding in every possible way … the dissemination by exhibition, lectures, and publications of useful information concerning orchids.”
BellaOnline, Orchids – an excellent orchid-reference site.
Canadian Orchid Congress – One of the most informative and easy to navigate online orchid reference sites.  Hats off to our Canadian friends.
Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia – the name says it all.  This is an outstanding online reference work by
Jay Pfahl.
OrchidMall  – the complete online orchid resource center.
OrchidWire – a comprehensive index of orchid sites on the web.
Royal Horticultural Society – a venerable institution with centuries of history; the official orchid registrars.
123 Greetings (Orchid Page) – send free online greeting cards to your friends and loved ones.


REGIONAL

Arkansas

Whippoorwill Orchids – Specializing in novelty phalaenopsis, colorful cattleya alliance, multifloral paphiopedilums (of small plant size), white paphs and phragmipediums in all flavors.

California

Andy’s Orchids – Andy Phillips and his brother Harry have one of the finest species collections in the world.
California Orchids – One of the oldest orchid boarding facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Casa De Las Orquideas – Specializes in high color and unusual cymbidiums grown outdoors under shade-cloth for the local pot plant trade and the serious collector.
Fascination of Orchids – A large and wonderful orchid show in Coastal Southern California.  The site contains tips for those growing orchids in that region.
Gallup & Stribling Orchids -- 1.5 million square-feet greenhouse just south of
Santa Barbara with aggressive breeding program focused on long-lasting cymbidium sprays, releases new varieties each year.
Gold Country Orchids
Huntington Beach Orchids – Specializing in Laelia anceps and hybrids and reed-stem epidendrums.
Orchids Orinda – Located in
Livermore, California.  They specialize in phalaenopsis.
OrchidMania – OrchidMania’s primary mission is to provide financial and moral support to grassroots AIDS prevention and relief organizations.
Paphways Orchids – Located in
Fieldbrook, California, five hours north of San Francisco in Humboldt County.  They grow paphiopedilums, phalaenopsis, cattleyas, oncidiums, cymbidiums and other fine orchid plants.
Pleasant Valley Orchids – PVO is located in the southern end of
Sacramento County in the central valley of California.  They specialize in phalaenopsis, dendrobium, oncidinae, paphs and phrags, as well as several other genera including a few masdevallias.
Santa Barbara Orchid Estate – one of the world's foremost collectors and propagators of orchid species and hybrids, specializing in outdoor temperature tolerant varieties.
Sunset Valley Orchids – Grower and hybridizer of quality orchids.  Home of the famous
Fredclarkeara After Dark.

Colorado

Urban Greenhouse – dedicated to providing indoor greenhouses that meet your most discriminating standards.

Florida

Amazonia Orchids –
Chapman’s Orchids – specializing in vandas, dendrobiums, oncidiums, pitcher plants and cattleyas.
Everglades Orchids – specializing in warmth tolerant cymbidiums and oncidium intergeneric hybrids.
Fender’s Flora – offers easy-to-grow, compact, and frequent-blooming orchids, with an emphasis on cattleyas and mini-cattleyas.
Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society – a large orchid society on
South Florida; cosponsors of the 2008 World Orchid Conference.
J & P Orchids – J & P stands for
Jim and Pam, who are the owners of J & P Orchids. They have been growing cattleya orchids for many years, and offer orchids for sale by mail order.
Juno Beach Orchids – offers a wide array of easy, warm-growing orchids – cattleyas, dendrobiums, vandaceous and more.
Orchid Island Orchids – specializing in oncidiinae.
Plantio La Orquidea – has provided high quality Orchids and Bromeliads to customers in
Venezuela and around the world for more than four decades.
R. F. Orchids, Inc. – specializing in vandaceous orchids but offering other types as well.  A wonderful place to visit in the
Redlands, southwest of Miami.
South Florida Orchid Society – home of the Miami International Orchid Show, one of the largest in the country; Cosponsors of the 2008 World Orchid Conference.

Hawaii

Exotic Orchids Of Maui – bringing you the best in tropical orchids since 1997.
Hilo Orchid Farm Hawaii, Inc. – wholesale potted orchid nursery specializing in oncidium alliance, miltoniopsis and paphiopedilums.
Kalapana Tropicals – Kalapana Tropicals Inc. is a family owned and operated orchid farm located south east of
Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Lehua Orchids – grows paphiopedilums, miltoniopsis (cool Columbian), miltonia (warm Brazilian),
nobile dendrobiums, and masdevallias.
Marty's Orchids – located on the east "wet" side of the
island of Oahu, behind the cuts and crevices of the tall Ko'olau Mountains.
Orchids In The Mist, Inc. – Orchids in the Mist, Inc. is a family owned business growing quality Cymbidium Orchids since 1978. Located in cool Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Iowa

Iowa Orchids

Illinois

Fox Valley Orchids, Ltd. – a small independent plant nursery specializing in tropical Lady's Slipper orchids.
Klehm Growers –

Michigan

Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory – One of the few remaining glass-covered conservatories.  They maintain an old and rare orchid collection.
Littlefrog Farm

Missouri

Missouri Botanical Garden – Its mission is "to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment, in order to preserve and enrich life."

New Jersey

Waldor Orchids – the largest supplier of orchid plants and supplies in the Delaware Valley.

North Carolina

Woodland Orchids – Located in Charlotte, specializing in oncidiinae.

New Hampshire

Jo's Orchids

New Jersey

Waldor Orchids – the largest supplier of orchid plants and supplies in the Delaware Valley.
Montclair Orchids – a hobby grower and member of the American Orchid Society with more than 25 years of growing experience, located in northern
New Jersey.

New York

Antec Laboratory – information site for tropical slipper orchids.

Oregon

Sky Island Orchids – Bill and Linda Mitchell started Sky Island Orchids in 1983 when they moved to Oregon from Arizona.

Pennsylvania

First Rays Orchids – An excellent site for learning how to grow orchids in semi-hydroponics.  Owner Ray Barkalow sells orchids too.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society – The timeless enjoyment of gardening awaits you at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1827.

South Carolina

Carter and Holmes Orchids – for many years, Carter and Holmes Orchids has been the premier source for orchids of every variety..
Marble Branch Farms – a small, professional orchid greenhouse and propagation lab dedicated to producing high quality plants for the hobbyist grower.

Tennessee

Sun Coast Orchid – specialize in filling small wholesale orders for growers and resellers of quality orchids and tropical plants. 

Virginia

Al’s Orchid Greenhouse –
Orchids Dominicana – more than three million orchids under cultivation, flowing from a laboratory that is currently producing 800,000 plants per year.
Quarter Acre Orchids – offers a full line of orchids (from seedling to blooming), orchid arrangements, orchid supplies, orchid books, and a huge selection of decorative ceramic pots.

Washington (State)

B & B Orchids – B & B Orchids specializes in growing orchids, primarily the warm growing slipper orchids that are easy to grow, flower and re-flower year after year.

Washington D.C.

U.S. Botanic Garden – The U.S. Botanic Garden currently maintains about 26,000 plants. The plants are used for exhibition, study, and exchange with other institutions. The Garden's noteworthy collections include economic plants, medicinal plants, orchids, cacti and succulents, bromeliads, cycads, and ferns.

INTERNATIONAL

Australia

Aussie Plant Tags - All plant tags are made in Australia. These plastic plant tags and bench display cards are a satin finish, UV resistant, tough and durable, recyclable polypropylene which is almost impossible to tear or break.
The Orchid Tray Company – an internet based company primarily set up to offer orchid accessories to orchid enthusiasts throughout the
Sydney area.
RONSCATTS Cattleya Photos – The purpose of this site is provide Cattleya Orchid growers the opportunely to view some of the late
David Littman's collection of quality cattleyas.

Canada

Central Ontario Orchid Society – The Central Ontario Orchid Society is a non-profit group of orchid enthusiasts centered in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
London Orchid Society – based in
London, Ontario.  Contains an extensive orchid picture reference by Bob Betts.
Windsor Greenhouse – premium Greenhouses for homes, hobby or school.

Germany

Munich Botanical Garden

Czech Republic

Orchid Club Labellum – in the heart of Central Europe is this site about orchids and orchid culture, with tons of photos.

South Africa

Witwatersrand Orchid Society

Venezuela

Orquideario Cerro Verde – founded by owner Armando Mantellini in 1967. They specialize in Venezuelan Cattleyas species .