Manos Kanellos studied plant physiology at Reading University and has worked with orchids for a number of years in Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. He has grown orchids at his home for over twenty years and gives talks to garden centers all over Britain on growing tropical orchids. Peter White is an acknowledged authority on Phalaenopsis, with over forty years of experience in orchid growing. He is a qualified judge of the RHS Orchid Committee and was president of the Orchid Society of Great Britain from 2013 to 2019. He is also the founder of www.orchidaccessories.co.uk, a popular website for everything you need to grow orchids.