Welcome to EnLightened Orchids! We are glad you found us! Our web site is constantly growing, so be sure to check back with us often.

We offer orchids and some companion plants that are good candidates for growing under artificial light or on windowsills. We also travel giving orchid-related lectures, so pass the word to your garden club and orchid society.

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**Announcements**

Pardon our dust while we remodel the web site a little. Please shout at our Web Master if you find any problems. Hopefully it will be a smooth transition.

We've added one quart and one gallon Semi-Hydroponics Containers to our Supplies Catalog.

Insecticidal soap! Safer around kids and pets than typical insecticides, and it works! Perfect alternative to harsh chemicals for home growers. Effective against mealy bugs, aphids, thrips, scale, etc. Non-offensive smell, and gentle on hands. This is the only insecticide my wife signs off on for use around our son and cat! One four ounce bar makes four to five quarts. Complete instructions included.

We attended the wonderful 19th World Orchid Conference and added a family Florida vacation. It was great to meet some of you there as well as make some new friends! If you missed it, shame on you for six weeks. The next WOC will be in Singapore in 2011. See some of our pictures from the show.

See Ernie's article on growing under fluorescent lights in the December, 2007 issue of Orchidsmagazine! Not an American Orchid Society member? Visit the AOS web site to join!

Ernie will be in...
• Wheaton, Illinois on Saturday, February 20, 2010 judging the Batavia Orchid Society's show and sale
• Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday, March 20, 2010 speaking at the Spring Mid-America Orchid Congress conference and Greater Omaha Orchid Society spring show and sale on growing orchids under fluorescent lights
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on Friday, March 26, 2010 judging the Manitoba Orchid Society's show and then speaking on Saturday, March 27 (no deliveries to this event, sorry, eh)
• Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday, July 25, 2010 judging the Central Iowa Orchid Society's speakers day
• St. Louis, Missouri on Friday and Saturday, September 10-11, 2010 speaking to the Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis on growing under fluorescent lights and the Mid-America AOS Judging Center
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday, September 18, 2010 juding the Wisconsin Orchid Society's show
• Glencoe, Illinois, Chicago Botanical Garden at the Chicago AOS Judging Center monthly judging sessions on most months
These lectures are currently in the planning stages: South Bend, Nashville, Chattanooga, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Baton Rouge...
...We'll be happy to deliver orders to these events!

updated February 08, 2010