This is a quick and easy guide that covers everything you need to know to grow fabulous Phalaenopsis orchids. The authors, Beth Cox and Geraldine Powell, are the owners of The Orchid Gallery, an orchid nursery and ecommerce business located just outside Chattanooga, TN. Together they have more than fifty years experience in the orchid business. Now they have decided to pass their knowledge along in a series of non-technical, how-to-grow it articles. This is the first in that series.

This marvelous little guide provides the beginning novelist with a step-by-step plan for writing that first book. It features a detailed how-to, along with helpful quotes from well-known authors offering up tips and tricks.It covers the various forms of outlines that will help you to start — and finish — your first or even your second or third novel, whether it's a mystery, spy thriller, sci fi or a romance.There are sections on: Plots, Locale, Characters, Dialogue, Sex Sce...

This is a charming tale written as a bedtime story for the younger set. It's about a very curious boy named Jonathan Gonagin who treks to the North Pole to find out if Santa is real. Santa and the Elves are sick with the Holly Pox. They are too ill to make and deliver toys, but Jonathan finds a cure and Christmas is saved. Here's the beginning:It was almost Christmas.All over the world, boys and girls were making lists of what they wanted St. Nick to bring.Toys, mos...

This bedtime story was written to be read aloud to children 3 or 4 to 6 or 7 years old. It is loosely based on an old nursery rhyme that you may recall: rich man, poor man, beggar man thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.

This is a charming tale written as a bedtime story for the younger set. Read it aloud to your children. It's about a very curious girl named Jennifer Gonagin who treks to the North Pole to find out whether Santa Claus is real. Santa and the Elves are sick with the Holly Pox, so no one is making toys. But Jennifer finds a cure and Christmas is saved.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself.When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into the life of her great-grandmother, using her skills as a researcher and psychoanalyst to find the truth behind family secrets.Moving between past and present, through parallel stories of family disintegration and lives knocked off...

Through science, help prepare children for the big feelings that come with developing bodies.From inspiring a sense of awe in the science of our bodies to understanding that bodies can be tricky, this book will help children learn how to be themselves and feel like they belong. Some children might feel like their body is different. But being different is completely natural . . . it’s just science!By teaching the principles of DNA, anatomy, nature vs. nurtur...

A home grower's guide to growing orchid favorites at home.  Contains 16 original photos. 

Table of ContentsEssential Guide to OrchidsIntroductionCollecting OrchidsNatural ConditionsDivision of SpeciesTerrestrial orchids –Epiphytic Orchids –Cultivation of OrchidsCultivation of Orchids at High AltitudesPropagation of OrchidsBlossoming OrchidsMaking an Orchid HouseTypes of Popular Orchids VarietiesDendrobiumEpidendrumCattleyaBletiaVandaPhalaenopsis

An extensive, easy-to-read guide to growing healthy orchids again and again, perfect for beginners, as well as experts looking for new tricks.Orchids are more popular than ever but can be intimidating in their exotic beauty. In this start-to-finish guide, acclaimed orchid expert Bruce Rogers demystifies the growing process so you can watch your plants thrive and bloom year after year. The Orchid Whisperer outlines:· How to buy orchids: What to look...

These are two of Andersen’s best loved fairy tales for kids, which are brought up to date and refreshed for a whole new audience. Both of these stories are at once sweet and uplifting. Generations of children and adults alike have been charmed by these classic fairy tales. Each is unique in its own right, and yet they complement each other perfectly. As bedtime short stories, both have undeniable charm and power.  While The Princess and the Pea is above all fun and jolly, The ...