Dear Email List Member,
We hope that this message finds you well and in great anticipation for the coming holiday season. CLAN Tropicals wish you, and yours, a very enjoyable holiday season and a prosperous New Year!
Just in case, your holiday shopping is not finished, we would offer the following suggestions:
The certificates can be mailed directly to you or to the recipient, with a gift card. If you do not find the denomination that you want on the website, please call (1-800-351-CITE) and a certificate for any denomination you desire, can be made! Click on the link above for details!
Orchid Books
This month FREE shipping for all orders placed by December 10th. We will not be shipping Orchid plants after the 15th; past experience has yielded poor service from the Post Office and UPS during the Christmas package crunch. Shipping will resume after January 6th. Your order can be held, until January 6th, and still receive free shipping, but your order must be placed before December 10th. |
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Orphan Orchids
Throughout the year, Our orchid friends will drop by with a beautiful grown out of bloom Orchid and a faded or missing label, with the plea "Can You Tell Me what this is". I wish we could, we have a better chance of winning the Florida lottery. With 32,000 species and 117,000+ man made hybrids, identification, of an out of bloom Orchid, is at best a SWAG (Scientific, Wild A-- Guess). Often, the genus/alliance can be guessed, with some certainty, but beyond that it is pure SWAG. So what to do, the simple answer is use a pencil to write your name labels. A #2 pencil is best, some of our personal plants still have legible labels 30 years after joining our collection. Second point, secured the label to the plant, not the pot, with bell wire or aluminum wire. Over time printed labels and permanent markers fade, and unsecured labels disappear.
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