Cypripedium formosanum Shade Perennials The red flying saucer-like flowers

The red flying saucer-like flowers top the clump in late April

Gentiana catesbyi is named after Mark Catesby

the 3' stalk of Dracunculus vulgaris

you'll enjoy the delicious early winter-ripening fruits

only later to rediscover it in the wilds of Korea

Cypripedium formosanum Shade Perennials The red flying saucer-like flowersWe are very excited to once again offer the Taiwanese ladyslipper orchid, Cypripedium formosanum, which is unfortunately now endangered in the wild. Cypripedium formosanum naturally occurs in moist, but well draining, alkaline soils, often growing in several hours of full sun in Taiwan's central mountains, between 7,000' 9,000' elevation. Cypripedium formosanum is similar in appearance to its closest relative, Cypripedium japonicum, both with