Selling orchids to high school kids

The new school year has started and that means that high school dances are close by. Not only are teenage girls looking for the right dress and shoes to wear but teenage boys will be looking for a way to impress that girl.

Orchid corsages are the answer and you can make money growing, designing, making and selling them. ...............continued below



Selling the orchid corsages will be the easy part. You can contact the local high school and ask if you can set up a small table at the dance or just outside the entrance. You can sell your creations there. Below are some books on designing corsages. You can be elaborate or simple in making them, the choice is yours just make sure you make a profit on them.

Orchid wedding bouquet

There is nothing more elegant than a wedding bouquet made with fresh orchid flowers. If you plan on growing orchids for weddings then learn how to make wedding bouquets and sell them directly to brides to be. If you drop down to the bottom of this post you will see some great suggestions on how to make wedding bouquets.

Marketing them is easy. Here is how you go about doing that



You need to network with professional wedding planners. They are your way "in" to the wedding marketplace. They have the connections you need to sell orchids in the wedding industry.

Below are some great books that will help you make very elegant and desirable wedding bouquets.

Consider growing rare orchids for profit

Large commercial orchid growers usually grow the common easy to find orchid types. That leaves the rare orchid market wide open. Consider growing those hard to find orchids instead of the common Cattleyas or Phalaenopsis. So where do you find them? That part is simple just



go to the tab above called "Orchid Plants for sale". The page has a live feed of what orchid plants are selling on eBay right at this moment. Listed among them are several rare specimens. Finding something rarer than normal should be fairly easy.

What you need to look for is color, shape and size of the flowers. If the plant is shown in bloom you need to look for flowers that are constant. They must all look alike otherwise you cannot count on what the plant will produce each time it blooms so you can't guarantee a flower shape or color to your customers.

Keep in mind that rarer orchids are often trickier to grow so don't attempt them unless you are fairly experienced and successful at growing orchids to blooming stage already.