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This blog/website has been in operation for more than eight years. As most of you already know, I am unapologetically crazy about wild orchids. I’ve been known to travel great distances just to see a single species in bloom. This blog/website intends to be a vehicle to share my adventures with you so that, hopefully, you might begin to appreciate why I am so fixated on wild orchids.
I am currently headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. It’s an area at the edge of the Southern Appalachian Mountains that is rich with all sorts of wildflowers — including many dozens of orchid species.
This shot was taken July 1, 2006, just beside the access road to Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, near the Blue Ridge Parkway. The orchids surrounding me are Platanthera psycodes, also known as Small purple fringed orchids.
Stay tuned, and enjoy my wildflower adventures.
— Jim
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RECENT POSTS
- The Timeliness of an Untimely End 11 July 2021
- Summer Wildflowers and Purple Fringed orchids on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina — 2021-06-25 7 July 2021
- Summer Solstice on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina — 2021-06-21 21 June 2021
- This ‘n That — 2021-06-04 4 June 2021
- Another visit to the Francis Marion National Forest for some native orchids — 2021-05-29 29 May 2021
- Capturing Light – My Take on it… — 2021-05-21 21 May 2021
- Day 2 of 2 — mid-May along the Carolina Coastal Plain — Green Swamp Preserve — 2021-05-16 16 May 2021
- Day 1 of 2 — mid-May along the Carolina Coastal Plain — Francis Marion National Forest — 2021-05-15 15 May 2021
- Some Southern Yellow Lady’s-slipper orchids — 2021-05-11 11 May 2021
- “Sweet Home Alabama” — 2021-05-07 and 08 8 May 2021
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- on 2016 Native Orchid Conference field trips — Malaxis abieticola — 2016-07-31 through 2016-08-05
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- on Summer Wildflowers and Purple Fringed orchids on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina — 2021-06-25
- on Trout lilies in the upstate of South Carolina: some of the first wildflowers of the season — 2015-03-03
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