Specialty Gardening: Flowers from yard to vase, 0 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
Bletilla striata (Chinese ground orchids) are not a very common cut flower, but they do make good cut flowers and are very easy to grow. They can take a variety of sun/shade combinations. The purple ones I have growing in morning sun/afternoon shade, the white ones are grown in practically all sun. They bloom earlier in the year so they bloom before the weather goes too hot (in April) so these set of photos are out of chronological sequence. Here is the purple variety