An interesting thing happens when you own more than one orchid. Your friends start to offer you orchids.

These are often orchids they bought from a grocery or hardware store which have finished blooming. Your friend likes the flowers, but is really not interested in growing the plant. At the same time, they hate to just throw away a living plant, so they jump at the chance to give it a good home.

The best advice for a novice is to get a healthy, mature plant from a grower, not a big retailer. It has been our experience that the grocery store orchids are treated as just another grocery item, and even straight from the store, are often in bad health. After a few month in your friend's home, through no fault of thier own beyond not knowing how to take care of an orchid, the plant is close to death.

Do you take it? If you are willing to accept that if the plant dies in your care, it is not your fault. For the sake of friendship and because a rescue orchid is a great learning experience, yes, take it. And you never know, you might get a nice addition to your collection.

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