As the woods warm up, trillium and lady slipper orchids may be found on woodland slopes under the cover of budding trees. As stems and leaves unfurl from the forest floor, ...

It seems like it was not long ago that we looked at the forest floor of deciduous trees and we noted carpets of the early spring wildflowers. Having a short lifetime and a need for direct sunlight, ...

Lady slipper orchids are found in five genera. Cypripedium, which are terrestrial have the ability to transform a garden into one of rare beauty. They are cold hardy and eleven species are native ...

Last year, monitoring uncovered the first “new” lady’s-slipper orchid in nearly 100 years at one of the reintroduction sites, which meant planted-out orchids had managed to produce seeds ...

Pink lady’s slipper ... Painted trillium (Trillium undulatum) is a characteristic trillium of the Adirondacks. It prefers strongly acidic soils and deep shade and thus tends to be found abundantly ...

A robust pink lady’s slipper looks almost alien, especially in the barren oak leaf litter. It’s as if some orchid god decided to enrich the barren acid soils with stunning jots of pink, the ...

Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the discovery of the first new plant in the wild in almost a century.

The Lady Slipper is a 42-foot-long bateau that whisks those on board to another era. "It is a huge, long wooden boat. It is heavy as all get out,” co-captain Wendy Wadsworth said.

The pink and white lady’s slipper (Cypripedium reginae), also known as the showy lady’s slipper or queen’s lady slipper, was adopted as the state flower in 1902. Credit: Courtesy of the ...

The first new wild lady's slipper orchid has been found in the wild for the first time in nearly 100 years. Credit: PA Images A decades-long bid to bring back one of Britain’s “rarest and most ...

Last year, monitoring uncovered the first “new” lady’s-slipper orchid in nearly 100 years at one of the reintroduction sites, which meant planted-out orchids had managed to produce seeds ...