Your advice under What To Look For when Buying Orchids is spot on. Shows are the absolute best places to get high quality orchids. However, while stalking Lowes today for an ID to one of my newly acquired Tolumnias I ran into the plant mgr.. Miffed that they were supposed to receive a shipment of Tols. two days ago that has still not arrived I mentioned that the remaining seven Better Gro orchids in bags were in poor shape and it wasn't like impatiens...you couldn't water and revive them in a few hours. Well, she felt badly that I'd made two trips and the next thing I know I'm walking out with all seven orchids in a bag for seven dollars. I've been in the OR (that's orchid room) ever since. They're in recovery now and their eyes are open.
Margaret Mead said, "It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope". I know she was referring to those orchids I'm always rescuing.
