Over-picking by Victorian collectors is thought to have made the Lady’s Slipper orchid extinct by the early 1900s.

The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside, with its discovery described as a “truly thrilling moment”.

Last year, monitoring uncovered the first “new” lady’s-slipper orchid in nearly 100 years at one of the reintroduction sites, ...

Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the ...

So often we discuss the design elements of common bushes, trees, annuals, and perennials. Usually these are items we find in ...

Since trillium's flower production takes up to a decade, it should come as no surprise that the patient plants can live for ...

Lady slipper orchids are grown from seed in laboratory conditions, and it can take up to five years to get a lady slipper blooming from seed. “We propagate most of our plants by seed ...

A mother-daughter duo is sowing the seeds of community at the Huron County Nature Center. Peppi and Yulia Christensen started a seed library in summer 2024 as a way to help people connect and grow ...

Perhaps the most spectacular group of Ohio orchids are the lady’s slippers in the genus Cypripedium. Four species occur, one of which, the pink lady’s slipper, is the subject of this column.

It looks like it would gobble up an unsuspecting pollinator but instead the pouch called a labellum is simply nature’s method of getting a pollination program underway. The pollinator flies into ...