upstate ladies and marl works +

[cnycharles]

This last May, I joined Ken Hull, Chrissy and Clark and NYeric on a quest to see northern small yellow ladyslippers in an undisclosed location. There used to be a marl works near a pond and much of the old structure was still standing

these are pics from 2013 of around the marlworks building and nearby

interesting turtle near the orchids underwater

more tomorrow

 

[cnycharles]

Actually it's tomorrow already!

pics from the trail out to the orchids, and the ladyslippers with my canon slr

 

[cnycharles]

Pics taken this year with iphone 4

 

[youngslipper]

Wish we had native slippers!

 

[cnycharles]

video of our visit. let me know if the playback is jerky. i tried editing in a windows video editor... it is a little on my laptop but it's old

http://www.cnyos.org/exdisp/video/northyellow.mp4

Eric, Chrissy and Clark, please post some of your pics here if you like!

 

[Secundino]

Great - makes me want to take the car and drive up the mountains and have a long walk into nature!
Thanks for sharing.

 

[emydura]

It looks like a lovely place.. Those lady slippers just look wonderful.

That looks like a small snapping turtle. A cool species but they will bite your hand off when they get bigger.

 

[Ozpaph]

lovely - thank-you

 

[MaryPientka]

Lovely slippers! What fun!

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

video of our visit. let me know if the playback is jerky. i tried editing in a windows video editor... it is a little on my laptop but it's old

http://www.cnyos.org/exdisp/video/northyellow.mp4

Eric, Chrissy and Clark, please post some of your pics here if you like!

Charles, this video worked a lot better this time around for me. Question - is that area around the pond naturally treeless, or is it growing back after disturbance? Are the conifers eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana?

Lovely looking plants and I'm so happy to see them thriving in the wild.

 

[Marco]

Awesome - Thanks for the tour.

 

[cnycharles]

Yw. The clear area is where the marl is so not much else grows. I had assumed the trees were northern white cedar but confess didn't look closely. They are usually in calcareous places but don't know if they are that far south


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[abax]

The Cyps. are lovely, but that stand of Columbine is fantastic. There are so many hybrid varieties around that
it's a bit hard to find native Columbine in this area.

 

[RNCollins]

Wish we had native slippers!

But you have those beautiful Disa orchids!

 

[cnycharles]

The Cyps. are lovely, but that stand of Columbine is fantastic. There are so many hybrid varieties around that
it's a bit hard to find native Columbine in this area.

Yes the columbine loves to grow on and around the limestone walls. Pretty nice seeing it on the window wells with the sun coming through


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[Paphluvr]

All the pics are very nice, but I particularly like the one of the tree stump and columbine. Very nice and a fun outing.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Is the bloodroot single or double flowering?

 

[cnycharles]

I'd only seen the leaf/seed pod this last trip and haven't seen the flowers. If it's wild I'm assuming that it's single?


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[Clark]

Eric, Chrissy and Clark, please post some of your pics here if you like!

I am outta town.
Thanks for the invitation.
Don't hold your breath, it will be a while.

Enjoyed your photos Charles.
Found a spiranthes today. It is surrounded by elephant flower. Cool beans how isolated it all is.

 

[SlipperFan]

Very cool, Charles!