Perennial or annual?

Farmer orchids cannot be grown for several years

Farmer orchids can tolerate frost down to minus seven degrees, at least for a certain period of time. The plant, which comes from the Chilean highlands, is not winter hardy and will not survive a harsh winter outdoors.

You can of course try one Peasant orchid to overwinter in the house in order to grow them for several years. However, it is not worth the effort. Farm orchids can survive the winter indoors under favorable conditions, but they no longer bloom in the following year.

You have to sow the pretty ornamental plant with its multicolored flowers every year.

Sow the split flower every year

the Peasant orchid in bloom very early in the year, if you sow them in the autumn of the previous year:

• Seed tray with Potting soil to fill
• Sow seeds thinly
• cover lightly with substrate
• Set up bright and warm at 22 to 25 degrees
• prick out after emergence
• Plant outdoors or in pots from March

Looking for a good location

In order for the split flower to develop its many beautiful flowers, it needs little care but a favorable location. It should be sunny to partially shaded. You are welcome to put them under trees or bushes, where other flowering plants rarely develop their blossoming splendor.

Waterlogging must be prevented at all costs, as the otherwise very robust plant will then perish. Mix the soil in the flowerbed with sand and put drainage in planters.

You only need to water outdoors if it has been very dry for a long time. In the bucket or Flower box(€ 35.85 at Amazon *) make sure that the substrate never dries out completely. Fertilize Plant the farmer's orchid outdoors with some ripe compost and in a planter every two weeks with some liquid fertilizer.