Cypripedium ventricosum Rhynchospora and light green checkerboard pattern

and light green checkerboard pattern with a silver streak down the center of each leaf

This selection of evergreen Japanese sacred lily is one we brought back from a visit to the UK in the early '90s

When the flowering event is over

The amazing Hosta 'Gypsy Rose' was discovered as a mutation of the famed Hosta 'Striptease'

Cypripedium ventricosum Rhynchospora and light green checkerboard patternThis rare orchid, Cypripedium x ventricosum, hails from that favorite vacation spot of Russian dissidents, Siberia. Cypripedium x ventricosum was long thought to be a new species until research showed it to be a natural hybrid of Cypripedium calceolus and Cypripedium macranthos I guess anything goes when the nights get cold and lonely. The slippers range from pale lavender to brownish, depending on which parent contributed the most genes, and the same