Lady's slipper and other wild Orchids

[SwampDonkey]

Pink Lady's Slipper



White Lady's Slipper

Anyone have any local wild orchids in their woods?

[wiam]

We have pink ones like those somewhere on the farm.  My wife keeps track of them better than me.

Will

[SwampDonkey]

I also have some yellow ones I'm going to take back to the woods this spring. I transplanted them from an area that was harvested, which is now regenerated enough I think for them to survive. Yellow ones are less common here. I see pink and white ones all the time in the summer.

[whitepine]

The pink ones are found here in spruce swamps in dark areas. I have seen the yellow ones in hardwood stands but rare here. 

[sprucebunny]

I took some pictures last spring.





Think I've seen the yellow ones , also.

[OneWithWood]

Don't have any pics and can't get any this time of year but we have something called a showy orchid as will as the occasional lady slipper.

[thecfarm]

I have a picture somewhere,of 12 Pink Lady's Slipper growing as close as they can.I have both Pink and White,never have heard of or seen a Yellow one.

[SwampDonkey]

The pink ones are found here in spruce swamps in dark areas. I have seen the yellow ones in hardwood stands but rare here. 

Same situation here.

[bitternut]

Didn't see any last week-end but I will look closer next spring when things start to green up again.

;D ;D ;D ;D

[SwampDonkey]

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D That's no good ;D

Somebody tried to convince me it was subtropical below the 49th. ;) :D

[crtreedude]

Someone has a pretty weird idea of subtropical... 

[Max sawdust]

We have wild lavender ones in the bogs around the lake.   My wife and I have 30 or so tame ones in the basement under grow lights for winter. ;D  They like the cool summers outside in Northern Wisconsin.
Orchids are great plants to grow if you have enough some are always in bloom.  We have some that bloom for 6 to 8 months at a time.
Most of ours like 50 to 60 at night these are from high tropical mountain cloud forests like down in CR :
max