Cypripedium acaule

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by Keysguy

There's your key subrosa, higher edge of the bog. They can't survive the persistent wet of any sphag or peat bog. On the other hand, reginae loves a good fen.

The size of the bog let me mound up the substrate well above the water max water level, but the substrate wicks well, so nothing ever gets dry. I'm planning on a calcareous fen in front of the bog to catch the overflow. Reginae and candidum are definitely on the short list for that.