Hi,

This is my first thread, and I need to warn you that I'm not at all green-fingered, but I'm trying!

A year and a half ago I was given a purple orchid. I'm not even sure what type of orchid it is, but it's of average size (I imagine) and is potted in some sort of bark mix. It has NEVER stopped flowering and growing, and I've really come to like it.

At the moment it has less flowers than usual, and it's roots seem to be coming out of the pot. I was simply going to buy some orchid potting mix online and put it in a bigger pot, but I was given another orchid (again, purple, but this time it's very small) and it's potted in a totally different thing; it looks very mossy, so I didn't want to buy the wrong one.

I then went to ask in garden centre, and the man there told me that it should be in a clear pot which totally threw me!

Please can somebody help - I just don't know what to do, and I don't want to kill this beautiful plant!