20th World Orchid Conference
Singapore will be hosting the 20th World Orchid Conference from the 13th to 20th November 2011. Singapore is hosting this event for the second time, with the first happening in October, 1963, almost 5 decades ago. The conference will be taking place at Marina Bay Sands, the newly built integrated resort added to Singapore’s entertainment sector [...]
Mandai Orchid Garden
The Mandai Orchid Garden, setup by British lawyer John Laycock in the 1950s, was once Singapore’s oldest and largest commercial orchid garden. The original garden consist of a spacious showroom concept at the frontal portion to showcase the various hybrids with intensive production being carried out further upslope. Since its inception, Mandai Orchid Garden has always [...]
Orchid Giftboxes
– Our new range of orchid giftboxes, ideal as personal or corporate gifts, are available for order today. Freshly harvested orchids from our nursery in Singapore are packed and distributed daily islandwide. These giftboxes may comprises of different orchid varieties or single variety where preferred. Our giftbox is specially designed with six floral whorl at [...]
Producing Orchid Keikis
Keikis are young orchid plantlets, usually produced from old plant stock with low yield, to be used as new seedling stock for the next generation of nursery plants. Keikis retains similar genetics makeup from the parent plant and are more stable than mericlone in terms of genetics stability for the next generation of stock plants. [...]
Creating Variations via Self Pollination
Self-pollination can be done to produce a range of varying offspring. Usually, the offspring plant with the most desirable phenotypical characterisitics are selected for cloning (A.K.A. mass production). In reality, a batch of clones are not guaranteed to yield identical flowers. A slight degree of variance can still surface; and mutations (due to chemical/environment etc) amongst [...]
