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These pictures are awesome. Cindy, I didn't see that. You forgot to show it to me or I missed it one. Oh, it may have been when I quit smoking and wouldn't come around for awhile...
I am attempting to grow some, but don't have much luck. This guy has given me a couple more (he has many many orchids in his house) and I am patiently awaiting some blooms.
Melcon, I haven't seen pink ladyslippers since I was a child, whenever we lived in the boonies. Those are beautiful. Are they growing right around your house? I have looked for them whenever I've been hiking around here, but I guess haven't been out at the right time.
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Yes, Leslie they are growing on my property in the woods in the back of the house. There are hundreds of them and they bloom in the middle of June. Some I can see right from my window. Rarer are the yellow ones, but I've only heard of those being further north.
A couple of years ago there was a little green worm/caterpillar eating them up and although I'm mostly organic I did dust them with chemicals because I can't lose them !! I've made a nice path through the woods so that I can take people out there but not disturb them.
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omg i love orchids!!! I can't ever get them to flower for me though I always try my best to get the right conditions, but college dorms in a shady window that faces sunrise doesn't seem to work >.< I remember i got this one pretty Paph. and i couldn't wait for it to flower ^.^ the bud got bigger and bigger, and then i bought it! I looked at it on the way home in the car... the thing that was holding the stem to the bamboo stick had cut the stem to the flower!! GRRRRR! I really wanted that one too
*hops* but its growing a whole new set of leaves off to the side of it so that's all good ^.^ My dendrobodum and other P word one seem to have frozen in time though... though my P word one is growing an air root, and lost a lower leave... so i donno lol. I just want a flowering plant that'll flower >.<
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I always try my best to get the right conditions, but college dorms in a shady window that faces sunrise doesn't seem to work >.< I remember i got this one pretty Paph. and i couldn't wait for it to flower ^.^ the bud got bigger and bigger, and then i bought it! I looked at it on the way home in the car... the thing that was holding the stem to the bamboo stick had cut the stem to the flower!! ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
GRRRRR! I really wanted that one too 
