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Article: Flowering Orchids on my Window Sills
 
This article gives a list of 196 showy orchids that the author has grown successfully on window sills in Denmark. For each orchid the month(s) of flowering start(s) is given and it is stated if the flowers are fragrant. The main purpose of the list is to give information on a) what orchids can be grown successfully on Danish sills, b) at what time of the year blooming of the orchids can be expected and c) how variable the blooming initiation may be. As all 196 orchids have been grow on living room sills without additional artificial light, the main climatic factor influencing their growth and flowering is the daylight; the article gives a graphic representation of annual variation in Danish day length, and list of locations with corresponding day length variation is stated. As a supplement a list of plant name synonyms is given, facilitating the use of modern plant names (in Latin). (All together 11 pages)
                                2020.04.14
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