In a year which has seen record rainfall down South (it’s raining as I write this), I should not have been surprised to find it pouring rain on the day we had set aside to visit the Green Swamp Preserve. Allow me to rewind a bit. I had been asked to present a program about

Last night, I received a call from my friend, Kelvin Taylor, telling me that he had just seen an image of Platanthera blephariglottis or White Fringed orchid from a bog near Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. I immediately knew which bog he was referring to. It is a little-known bog that is home to a host

Today is our last day for orchid hunting in Newfoundland. Tomorrow, early, we will have to be at the ferry dock in Channel Port-aux-Basques to catch the six-hour crossing back to the mainland of Nova Scotia. We rise early and drive the short distance to J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park. This is where, almost two weeks

We left Deer Lake early in the morning heading south toward several orchid sites we had known to be in the Codroy Valley. Each of these sites hosts a dizzying array of forms and colors of the fringed orchids: Platanthera lacera or Ragged Fringed orchid, Platanthera psycodes or Small Purple Fringed orchid, and Platanthera grandiflora