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homemade orchid potting mix Premium Orchid Bark Mix

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homemade orchid potting mix Premium Orchid Bark MixOrchid Bark Mix Provides Plenty of Room for Drainage & An Optimum Environment Orchids hold a singular fascination in our minds. Their delicate flowers, vibrant coloring, and elegantly arching branches have dazzled our senses since they were first brought into our homes in the 1700s. Recreating the Ideal Natural Habitat While orchids offer stunning beauty, many of us have had a difficult time keeping them alive as houseplants. The good news is that

Orchid Bark Mix Provides Plenty of Room for Drainage & An Optimum Environment

Orchids hold a singular fascination in our minds. Their delicate flowers, vibrant coloring, and elegantly arching branches have dazzled our senses since they were first brought into our homes in the 1700s. 

Recreating the Ideal Natural Habitat

While orchids offer stunning beauty, many of us have had a difficult time keeping them alive as houseplants. The good news is that orchids are now easier than ever to take care of and can flourish beautifully in your home for many years. 

Orchid Growing Medium

Orchids are a little different from other plants. In the wild, they grow on rocks or the sides of trees. For this reason, they will not grow in regular potting soil. Instead, they need a planting medium that is loose and penetrable by air. 

Orchids have large roots that need a lot of oxygen. To replicate this native environmental factor, it is essential to plant your orchid in a medium that is similar to its native habitat and allows for good air circulation. Our Pine Bark for Orchids does just that. 

Orchid Light Requirements

Orchids need a lot of light. They tend to thrive best in a south-facing window, right on the sill. Adequate light will ensure optimal blooming and coloration. 

Orchid Watering

You may be wondering how often should i water orchids in bark? Many orchids have been lost due to overwatering. Allow your planting medium to completely dry out between waterings. When watering use lukewarm water and fully saturate the plant’s roots. Then allow the water to fully drain away. 

Orchids are native to tropical and subtropical regions and therefore love a humid atmosphere. They tend to do best with a relative humidity between 50 to 70 percent. This is why we hear about orchids doing exceptionally well when located in a sunny bathroom. The steam from frequent showers enables them to thrive. 

Orchid Temperature Range

Orchids grow best in areas with a nighttime temperature between 50 to 60 degrees. Interestingly, orchids also need to have a 10-degree drop from daytime temperatures in order to bloom abundantly. In other words, consistent or stagnant temperatures will stifle flowering. 

What to Love About Our Bulk Orchid Bark Substrate

Our specially formulated Premium Orchid Bark Mix allows the much-needed aeration that orchid roots need to stay healthy.

Organic Pine Tree Bark

Our orchid potting bark is responsibly sourced from local long-leaf pines. Pine tree bark is uniquely ideal for providing all orchid varieties with the aeration, pH level, and balanced moisture they need to thrive. We cut our pine bark to the perfect grade and size to facilitate optimal growth. Its attractive red color will also make your plant look expertly maintained and even more lovely. 

Other Uses

Our Premium Orchid Bark substrate is also suitable for use with potted bonsai trees, terrariums, and landscape designs. Plus, our bark makes a great admixture to other kinds of soil and serves as an excellent mulch.

Consider Using Our Fine Orchid Bark for Your Prized Plants!

Our Premium Orchid Bark is sourced here in the US and packaged on our Florida farm. When you buy from Perfect Plants you are directly supporting a local and small business. We appreciate and value your patronage!

Happy planting!

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Got it for my class reading (not surprising tho, the book was great). Quick delivery and great packaging.
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I loved this book. I devoured the entire thing in one sitting on a Sunday afternoon. It's a beautiful and tragic and warm story all at the same time. I feel like a lot of times when we hear about the Vietnam war in the United States, it's told from the perspective of American soldiers rather than the Southern Vietnamese who lost their home land. Really refreshing to see this diverse and nuanced perspective. I look forward to Thi Bui's future works.
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Savannah L.
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★★★★★ 5
This book healed me
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Beautifully written and illustrated. Although Thi Bui and I have astronomically different life experiences, I still found I could relate on a deeply personal level. This book taught me empathy and forgiveness at a time in my life where I struggled to have it. Bui nailed the complicated feelings and emotions that comes with confronting abuse, abusers (who happen to be your parents), and the painful impact of generational trauma on both the parent and child. Highly recommend this book to anyone who is on a path of healing their own broken heart.
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Powerful Family History
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After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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An excerpt from my analysis essay I submitted for my literature course: By revisiting her family’s past from before, during, and after the Vietnam War, she gained a deeper understanding of the emotional burdens her parents carried and the sacrifices they made that defined the entirety of their lives. Bui’s illustrated graphic memoir reveals that trauma does not simply disappear over time; instead, it becomes inherited, processed, and transformed. Through this process, Thi Bui is able to move toward empathy for her parents, acceptance of who they are, and a more complete sense of self.
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