The BBC ran a piece this week that every serious orchid grower should read. Matthew Kenyon’s report for BBC Technology of Business — Inside the Secretive and Lucrative World of Orchid Breeding — follows the Dutch breeding firm Floricultura through its greenhouses in Heemskerk, North Holland, and makes one thing unmistakably clear: orchids are a real industry, with real money, real intellectual property disputes, and a real supply chain spanning three continents.