Early Brazil
Who Started The Orchid Craze – And Why?
Orchid culture is so widespread these days that it is diffcult to picture a world without these wonderful flowers. But, not so long ago, the inhabitantspopulace of the developed world were utterly ignorant of the overwhelming majority of orchid species.
Europeans of course knew about their native orchid types, such as the much acclaimed Bee Orchid. But familiarity with of the thousands of amazing tropical orchids had to await the results of explorations into the jungles and mountains of South America and the East Indies. Even then, specimens were slow to filter back to places such as England, Germany or France.
Perhaps the first living orchid to be transported from the tropics to England was an Epidendrum cochleatum, one of the more showy of its genus. It flowered in London in 1787. Another species from the same family was brought to England in the year 1778. It took a decade for its caretakers to bring forth flowers from it.
Admiral Bligh, of Bounty fame, carried 15 species of epiphytal orchids to England from the West Indies around the early 1790s. These were planted at the well-known Kew Gardens in London. For many years the West Indies, along with India, were the central sources of tropical orchids to Europe. In 1793, though, a species of Oncidium was carried to England from Panama, followed several years later by some orchids from Uruguay.
By 1818, Brazil in partcular was contributing to what was becoming a steady flow of orchids back to England and other countries of Europe. By 1830 the Royal Horticultural Society had collectors traveling throughout Brazil looking for unusual species.
The orchid trade very soon was transformed into a serious profit making enterprise, with businessmen in Brazil entering into arrangements with their London counterparts to ship plants to England for resale there. William Harrison, a stationed in Rio de Janeiro in the 1830s and 1840s, sent many lovely orchids to his brother Richard in Liverpool. Richard’s house soon became a magnet for orchid fanatics who pilgrimaged there to see the newest arrivals.
It was one thing to introduce orchids to Europe, but another thing altogether to cultivate orchids succesfully. For more than half a century, England indeed was the graveyard for tropical orchids. The plants that survived did so in spite of rather than because of the treatment they received. Growers kept experimenting and making mistakes until, by about 1850, they had largely worked out the art of orchid cultivation. That’s when the orchid craze really exploded, because now the knowledge was available by which even non-botanists could grow these stunning plants.
Knowledge of successfully growing orchids has increased during the intervening years and now we know so much more than did those Victorian devotees. We also have, of course, better technology to aid us in the greenhouse and garden.
The most complete guide to expert orchid growing, it is widely acknowedged, is Orchid Care Expert by Nigel Howard, which can be downloaded online. Howard’s well-written guide is a complete education all to itself. And, it’s appropriate for novices as well as more seasoned orchid growers. Also, visit the Orchid Secrets web site, which has a growing library of postings on all topics of orchid cultivation.
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