Comments on: saving (and growing) native lady’s slipper orchids, with longwood’s peter zale https://awaytogarden.com/conserving-and-growing-native-ladys-slipper-orchids-with-longwoods-peter-zale/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sun, 12 May 2024 13:41:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lynda Pollock https://awaytogarden.com/conserving-and-growing-native-ladys-slipper-orchids-with-longwoods-peter-zale/comment-page-1/#comment-1388085 Sun, 12 May 2024 13:41:16 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54537#comment-1388085 Lovely conversation. We have a population of pink lady slippers near our house. So precious.

]]> By: N.Duffey https://awaytogarden.com/conserving-and-growing-native-ladys-slipper-orchids-with-longwoods-peter-zale/comment-page-1/#comment-1388082 Sun, 12 May 2024 13:20:39 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54537#comment-1388082 About fifty years back, when I was a teenager, my uncle showed up at our house, handing my mom a bucket full of pink lady slippers (it was 50 years ago, people didn’t know then!). He’d picked them when out hiking from my grandfather’s cabin, coming across a field full of them. Another time when we were at the cabin my mom found a tiny brown orchid, the plant maybe six or seven inches tall, the flower less than an inch, perhaps as small as half an inch. Beautiful. Lady slippers have been my favorite since.
I am interested in that growing mix. Is it available?

]]> By: Catherine A Mitchell https://awaytogarden.com/conserving-and-growing-native-ladys-slipper-orchids-with-longwoods-peter-zale/comment-page-1/#comment-1388081 Sun, 12 May 2024 13:11:36 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=54537#comment-1388081 I always remember see these when I was a kid in Minnesota and was very intrigued on how something so delicate could be living on the ground in the woods. They are so beautiful and just get you so close to nature! This is a great episode and brought me back to my childhood in Northern Minnesota.

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