Northeast Gardening: Lady Slippers in bloom!, 1 by Hemhostaholic

Hemhostaholic wrote:
This is going to be a series of them. A few things that I learned from just taking their pictures: 1) They do not grow naturally in low lying areas. All of the pics that I took I had to climp up some steep hills, and they grew (essentially) on the leaf matter that fell from trees that grew on large rock formation. 2) From what I gathered, they need excellent drainage. 3) They do spread by way of an almost stolon like growing system. Some colonies were anywhere from 3' to 10' away from another group...if I shifted the leaf matter/ruff away I could actually connect one colony to the next.

Here is another pic: