Blue Jay Barrens

The lone Blue Jay Barrens Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchid sent up two stalks this year and managed to produce three full blooms. It’s ...

I just recently welcomed back a plant that hadn’t been seen at Blue Jay Barrens for over 10 years. The Showy Orchis was commonly seen her...

One of my late September rituals is to make the rounds to admire the final orchids of the year.  Spiranathes ovalis is a late season orc...

It is always exciting to discover a new location for a rare plant already known to be growing at Blue Jay Barrens.  Sometimes it’s more ex...

As a youngster, I always thought of orchids as being extremely delicate plants that needed exacting conditions in order to grow and flower...

I had to wait five years to get a digital photo of a Crested Coral-root Orchid, Hexalectris spicata , at Blue Jay Barrens.   Its last app...

I’ll admit that the winter woodland landscape can appear rather desolate compared to the lush growth of summer, but it’s far from being a ...