Cypripedium ventricosum Cyclamen and the Florida Panhandle

and the Florida Panhandle

It's so similar that we can't really tell it apart

Hostas always grow better in rich

insanely fragrant

we have found that a full-sun

Cypripedium ventricosum Cyclamen and the Florida PanhandleThis rare orchid, Cypripedium x ventricosum, hails from that favorite vacation spot of Russian dissidents, Siberia. Cypripedium x ventricosum was long thought to be a new species until research showed it to be a natural hybrid of Cypripedium calceolus and Cypripedium macranthos I guess anything goes when the nights get cold and lonely. The slippers range from pale lavender to brownish, depending on which parent contributed the most genes, and the same