... in minnesota. Bill Steele and his wife Carol own and run Spangle Creek Labs in minnesota, and grow/sell many north american terrestrial native orchids. this last year Bill sent me a picture of a large tub filled with cultivated calopogon tuberosus (grass pinks), which was pretty spectacular, so with his permission I'm posting it here! (i'm assuming it was Bill who also took the picture)
Spangle Creek's website
a pretty sweet pot of orchids! these orchids aren't too hard to grow
at home if you have a good, moist big tub or an area that stays moist
all of the time
I've seen some grass pinks not far from here that were very tall, growing in a sort of 'decomposed' peat/soil area, in a wet opening between tamaracks close to a very large boggy area (pitch pine bog). ... seen lots of other smaller ones growing in sphagnum mosses but none as large as the ones in peat
Spangle Creek's website
a pretty sweet pot of orchids! these orchids aren't too hard to grow
at home if you have a good, moist big tub or an area that stays moist
all of the time
I've seen some grass pinks not far from here that were very tall, growing in a sort of 'decomposed' peat/soil area, in a wet opening between tamaracks close to a very large boggy area (pitch pine bog). ... seen lots of other smaller ones growing in sphagnum mosses but none as large as the ones in peat
