Pine Ridge Orchids

Pine Ridge Orchids is a commercial nursery selling wholesale to the general public. We specialize in “florist quality” Phalaenopsis in the most unusual colors plus Paphiopedilums, both Maudiae-type and multi-floral types. We also have an extensive cloning project ongoing where we clone the best of our Phalaenopsis stock along with some very unusual color varieties of seedlings bred from Taiwan and other local hybridizers. We are also growing select hybrids and clones in the Catasetinae Alliance, specializing in larger sized flowers ranging from greens to pastels to reds to blacks.

All of our plants are labeled with the hybrid or grex name; we omit our nursery name on the tag. We are primarily a wholesale nursery - the plants are all arranged and rearranged constantly on our rolling benches, but generally we are unable to locate specific hybrids for that reason until the plants are blooming. We can accommodate most requests for specific colors if the plants are in bloom at the time of order.

We ship throughout the US using freight lines that specialize in shipping plant material in climate controlled trailers. We have found that there is much less damage to the plant material and much less bud drop if we tape the sleeved plants securely into a shuttle tray and then place the units onto the boxes; many of our out-of-state customers also use their own trucks to pick up their plant orders, which we then place in shuttle trays for safe transport with or without the sleeves and boxes. Plants can be bare rooted (the roots are secured inside a plastic baggie and taped closed) and stacked or layered with appropriate padding inside boxes and then shipped Priority Mail (usually 3 – 5 days) or FedEx if the plants are not in spike or just spike initiated with no bud differentiation. Smaller orders may be shipped USPS Priority or FedEx at the customer’s request.

Please note that actual shipping and delivery charges will be added as a separate charge to your invoice on the day that it ships. Since the charges are actual and not pre-calculated and can vary with the many choices of available shippers and their service rates, we don't have that information until the day your order ships. The choice of carrier and service level is suggested unless the customer requests another.

The customer takes responsibility for the cost of the plant(s):

+ $1 per plant for packing
+ $6.50 for the box
+ actual cost on freight delivery
+ $5.00 fee for shipper drop-off (does not apply to pick-up services).

Our mission is to greet and serve our customers Monday through Friday (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) and Saturday (9:00 AM – 3:00 PM) by offering the largest and most vigorous growing orchid plants in a wide array of choice in unusual colors commercially available.

For the best service available, please contact us ahead of your intended visit. Depending upon the time of year, pre-bookings, and the stage at which you require the inflorescence to be developed, our plants may be in short supply. Please always contact us for availability and what may be suitable for your immediate and future needs.

What's New!

Sunday 5/10/2009 UPDATE

PRICE REDUCTIONS EVERYONE ---- our Mother's Day Sale was a nice success and Barbara and I have decided to continue our price reduction of our orchids to our deepest discount WHOLESALE prices to all our customers. You can open or download out pricelist from the link directly to the left ( Current Pricelist ). Happy Mother's Day!

Barbara and I have also started a Blog that will show photos and have short writeups on what we are currently doing at Pine Ridge Orchids -- ( PRO BLOG ). I am posting new photos and writing new posts as time permits. I will be posting items like how I mix our media; how I repot the various orchids; R&R a couple of our irrigation pumps; and Barb will post photos on her work around the lily pond and in the Pine Rockland ecosystem. I was thinking of future postings like installing and finishing up the watering stations in our Rock Pineland to attract quail, foxes, snakes, raptors, and cougars to the water features in our arid ecosystem and the repairs to our "artificial tree" steel columns so that we can once again raise the stands for our bird houses and bat houses. I also have to repair the woodpecker damage to our bat houses and I will attempt to take photos of that procedure (as long as it works the way I am planning???).

This is the time of year that the Catasetinae are being repotted because they are starting to come out of dormancy. If you are growing the Catasetinae, please keep in mind that watering at this stage is critical and you should probably only be watering once every 2 weeks watching for good root development. I'm noticing a couple of plants with inflorescences coming up next to the new growths, so we should be seeing a good number of plants in bloom within a month.

As is normal for this this time of year, we are going into our early Summer growing season and temperatures are rising. I have replaced the second layer of shade cloth on the greenhouse roof to help reduce the temps inside the greenhouse.

Phalaenopsis are in full bloom right now (it's a little late to have new inflorescences initiate) but there are still a good number of plants with unpoened buds.

I'm getting a fair number of large multi-floral Paphiopedilums in spike and I saw a couple of Paph. Ho Chi Minh coming into bud.

Pine Ridge Sanctuary - our globally endangered Rock Pineland ecosytem was recently awarded Recertification as a Forest Stewardship. On 12/21/2008, Georgia Tasker of the Miami Herald newspaper ran a two page article ( p1 link and p2 link ) on us and I have included that in our website under the Pine Rockland section "Habitat Reasearch." Our Pine Ridge Sanctuary Pine Rockland was noted as the most aesthetically and scientificaly valuable pine flatwoods in the entire State of Florida.

Also: I have some longer explanations under some of the popup photos, so if you are interested, please click on the thumbnail photos to bring up the larger popups, and there may be more written about the photo.

For our foreign customers: as of 1/2009 I'm afraid I am limiting our exports. The Agricultural requirements for Export out of the US and Import into certain countries has become so prohibitive concerning regulations, permit requirements, and costs, along with credit card fraud that I am contemplating stopping all exports at this time.

We hope you enjoy all the hard work we have undergone to provide you with new photos, new information on our globally endangered ecosystem, and our section on teas that we enjoy. We welcome any feedback you can provide to us about what you think and how you can view the website pages.

Thank You very much --- Terry Glancy and Barbara Glancy