Beneath its delicate appearance, the orchid is a fairly resistant variety of tropical plant that can be grown at home. The only problem is that it can sometimes be difficult to get them to bloom again if you don’t know the right tricks. Discover 10 simple and practical tips to take care of them at home.

Ideal for adding a touch of lightness to your interior by purifying the air in your home, the orchid has been associated over the centuries with a large number of symbols. From ancient Greece to Japan, passing through South America, where it is currently the national flower in Costa Rica, Venezuela or Colombia, it represents voluptuousness, eroticism, seduction and much more.

What does the orchid symbolize?

To understand what it represents, we must first look at its roots. And for good reason, those of the flower have long evoked anatomical curves, especially in ancient Greece, where they were associated with eroticism , fertility, masculinity, and the female sex. It was even thought that its consumption could influence the sexual determination of a baby, explains Nathalie Chahine in her book “Little Book of the Language of Flowers”, with the large roots being the privilege of a boy and the small ones being the privilege of a girl.
The orchid family, which today has more than 20,000 botanical species, was also revered in Japan and China for its artistic and aesthetic values. Confucius associated its fragrance with that of friendship and its particular appearance with that of the accomplished man. More abstractly, he also represents a color, the grace and fragility of a thing or a person and, finally, rarity and refinement. Without forgetting that it is one of the plants that provide positive energy to the home.

For these various reasons, many people consider it an ideal plant to decorate their interiors, and rightly so, since it is an undeniable point of attraction in a room. You just have to know how to take care of it properly to grow it at home.

How do I care for an orchid?

In tropical forests or in the wild, orchids are found in humid grasslands, dry calcareous areas, in forests or on some roadsides. In fact, there are also species of epiphytic orchids with aerial roots that do not need to be planted in soil supports. The latter feed on moisture from the surrounding air and can grow on the branches of another plant, on rocks or even on trunks. However, the orchid can also be grown indoors in a pot.