Those anybody look in the wild 4 orchs.

[mikeurquia]

Those anyone look or walk in the woods or hike looking for wild orchids or everyone mostly have them at home???????????Just wonder????

[kiki-do]

I have oodles of native lady slippers up back of my house. I took and tried to show them here, but for some reason, I won't download here on OB. I took the same way I take all my photos, but it's a no show. Sorry!
I have a huge patch of wild blueberries up back just before the woods start and the pinks, purples, and white lady slippers are all through them. It's very pretty. I'm very careful where I walk, though and don't get too close.

[Ross]

I have yellow ladyslipper, showy ladyslipper, small yellow ladyslipper and pink ladysliper nearby as well as many forms of "ladies tresses".

[flhiker]

That must be a awesome sight Kiki and Ross.
Yum Blueberry's We have mulberries trees down here, they look like raspberry's but are larger and purple. Real "sweet"

[mikeurquia]

Does anybody live near hills or mountains these pink tresses and white where are these Im down here with [flhiker] in the everglades we got rattlers, mocassins, bears, panthers but no real dangers lololololol?..???...do you guys ever see any snakes hanging around your orchids????????????????

[kiki-do]

I live on part of a mountain. We've made a trail from my house that we hike up to what we call the ledges (blueberries galore). Once there, and if a clear day, I can see Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (tallest mountain in the eastern area). I sometimes can see the cog railway train's smoke as it puffs up to the summit of Mt. Washington. There is a river below the ledges and sometimes, if I'm lucky, I can see a Bald Eagle that likes to catch fish by that river bend. That's what's happening in my backyard. No rattlers here, but we have moose, deer, bear, and wild turkeys...oh, and lots of ticks this year.
I have a garter snake that hangs out with me in my perennial gardens and I call him Jake the Snake. He's on my payroll and eats all the bad bugs.
Pink Tresses? What is that?

[Chubidubi]

There are places were I like to hike that have a lot of native orchids. I do collect them when I now they are in danger (every now and again new development for tourist take a lot of native habitat) We don't have poisonous snakes here but I have a lot of them around my home (I live up in the mountains). I even found a snake skin wrapped around my dendro. That was so cool.

[isurus79]

I see and collect orchids here in Hawaii. We have wild Spathoglottis, Phaius tankvillae, some reed stem Epis, Arundina graminifolia and supposedly there are reports of massive groves of Vanda suavis growing in the mountains of Maui. None of these are native and all are VERY abundant, so I have no qualms about collecting them. Nothing better than free orchids!!!!!! There are also no snakes or large animals to worry about here. I wish we had monkeys though!!

[moogiemama]

I keep looking and looking and hoping to find some wild orchids here, but no luck - so I have some hybrids I grow indoors with the others. Snakes... well, there are timber rattlers, copperheads, water moccasins for your basic poisonous ones and then the usual variety of black snakes, garters, ring-necked, etc. The creepiest are the black snakes (or racers) since they can scramble up the trees. They stand still and several times I've thought one of my kids had thrown a rubber snake into the tree to scare me! Uh, no..... So to answer your question about orchids and snakes - not unless they get into my sun room!

[mikeurquia]

Man that sounds like a hectic type of enviroment and I thoght I had it rough here in the swamps,but I did chase a 9 foot gator with my hiking stick that didnt want to move from the main road.