Hey, Jill. When I ship out any of my plants, orchids or other, I always include growing instructions. I think the cypress knees are a wonderful addition to my line-up of mounts. They are really beautiful and certainly one-of-a-kind. I mount on both the natural, untouched (bark) side and the epoxy-sealed side. The plants do well on either side. Your back porch should be great. Hopefully it is open to the east or south. A northern exposure doesn't offer much light and a western exposure (in the spring and summer) gets awfully hot by mid-afternoon. You would not want many of the tropical plants family to get direct sun from the west. They would likely sunburn.
