Pink Lady Slipper/Moccasin Flower:Facts, lore and amazing symbiotic relationships with bees & fungi!

[@jonathanmazzilli2936]

Just found one today👍 Beautiful flowers.. Great video!! Very informative I'm gonna share the link to this video 🤗

[@natureatyourdoor]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Healingintuitivecancer]

Just got home from taking my dog on a walk on a new island on the lake we just found in January, here in Worcester, Massachusetts. Anyway today all the trees had leaves and the wild grass was shin high but around the entire dirt path were these beautiful pink flowers I’ve never seen before! Googled them and found your video! So glad I did Frank! This was a lovely video can’t wait to watch and learn so much more! 💓🌸

[@natureatyourdoor]

Awe! Thank you so much! Welcome to Nature at Your Door! I do hope you will enjoy exploring my channel! So glad you found me!

[@jonathanmazzilli2936]

I'm in Plymouth mass lol just found one today I haven't seen one since I was a kid

[@junniesisco1358]

This is my favorite flower thank you for this video

[@natureatyourdoor]

Most welcome 😊

[@lockjaw255]

My son & grandson found a beautiful mountainous place in the Blue Ridge Mts to scatter some of my dad’s ashes. There were several pink lady slippers. ( and no none were picked) We would have loved that. He was a WWII veteran, Europe & Pacific. He was 96 when he passed.

[@natureatyourdoor]

A beautiful momento. My father recently passed as well at 98! He was born in New Zealand!

[@paulalbert8096]

Stumbled upon your channel when I was having the “post winter, yearning for spring blues.” Just wonderful. I live in Waynesville, NC, at the edge of the Smokies. I have all my Lady Slipper locations marked on my GPS and yearn to go back each year and observe their progress.

[@natureatyourdoor]

Hi Paul! So glad you found my channel! Slowly, slowly I am getting out there! Very cool about your pink lady slippers. I have a friend that hopes to take me to some yellow lady slippers this spring! That will be my first. Sadly last spring the deer ate my patch to the ground! too many deer!

[@paulalbert8096]

@@natureatyourdoor I have a clump of about 22-24 yellow lady slippers that a dear little old lady gifted to me a few years ago. Her father had removed a few from their homestead property when they were relocated after the Great Smoky National Park was formed. I did take about five gallons of the surrounding soil. They came back year after year until the canopy shaded them too much. Then I consulted that expert lady slipper guy from Germany who said I needed to relocate and split them. So now I am waiting for them as they start to pop up and hoping they bloom! The leaves were vibrant and healthy, but they were not all blooming!

[@natureatyourdoor]

@@paulalbert8096 that is really incredible! So the soil fungi that they are intertwined with must be thriving there too! Kudos!

[@juliacatoe1150]

Just found this video through Virginia native plants FB page and so glad I did. Thanks for your lovely and informative videos.

[@natureatyourdoor]

Thank you so much Julia! Glad you found my channel!

[@greendeane1]

They were a common flower in the pine forest behind the house I grew up in in Pownal Maine, there were also white blossom ones.

[@natureatyourdoor]

Cool! And the whites must have been stunning!

[@pibarrante6901]

Loved this. Thanks!

[@natureatyourdoor]

You are so welcome!

[@darrelfontenot6937]

That was awesome!

[@natureatyourdoor]

Thank you for encouraging my effort here!

[@ramonabearor72]

Thanks for the informative video. I was pleased to find some of these this Spring in Augusta county as well as the beautiful Yellow Lady Slipper.

[@natureatyourdoor]

Thanks Ramona! I am jealous of your yellow lady slipper find! Ha! I hope you will do out some of my other videos that might interest you! Appreciate very much your sharing with me!

[@hanswitt7645]

Fascinating! Thank you for your excellent educational video on pink lady slippers. I subscribed to your channel, and I am looking forward to learning more from you!

[@natureatyourdoor]

You are welcome Hans! Welcome to Nature at Your Door!

[@MmmChipotle]

Love this video! I have around 10 blooming plants in my woods in my back yard! Edit:I did not plant them!

[@natureatyourdoor]

Pretty cool Billy Mays! And thanks for your support!

[@lettsimorford4849]

I just found this plant close to my property and started searching for its name and came across your video. Wow, I learned a lot, thank you. Hopefully the deer don’t eat them up, they are gorgeous! I will start walking tomorrow around my property to see if I have them too 🤗

[@marshavia8558]

Excellent video, very informative !

[@natureatyourdoor]

Thank you so much Marsha!

[@pambrown6260]

Thank you

[@natureatyourdoor]

You are welcome Pam!

[@mikej70]

Native to my area in the pine woods have seen pink and rarer yellow one in state forest. Still seen today 2023 growing some legal cultivated roots never take from the wild. Hopefully grow great and I can share and keep the plant growing in the area

[@natureatyourdoor]

Thanks for sharing!

[@MrChristianDT]

Starting to realize the tops of the hills in my woods, where the soil is most acidic, are going to end up turning into some really interesting little gardens. The Pink Lady Slippers will have to be there, so will the Bleeding Hearts, possibly some blueberries, partridge berries & pitcher plants.

[@natureatyourdoor]

Acid lovers! 👍😁

[@sherrellelkins1976]

Loved this video. When I was young lived in New Hampshire they were every where. We were told it was illegal to pick them. That was 1969.

[@natureatyourdoor]

They are wide spread but probably not a good idea to pick them. Deer are really hurting the population! Glad I triggered some beautiful memories! Thanks for sharing!

[@wrengregory1458]

Thank You!

[@natureatyourdoor]

You're welcome! My favorite native!

[@joshuajw8491]

They grow here in Nova Scotia too : )

[@natureatyourdoor]

Fantastic! What a broad range! Thanks for checking in and sharing from NS!

[@iallen4188]

I have heard that it isn't good to move them. Is there anyway to successfully move them? We have at least 4 on our property...we are thinking of clearing our land in the front and 2 are in the top corner. The land clearer guy said he can go around them but I worry that if we clear up to them...it will then be too sunny for them. So I would like to move them to the back corner that I have seen them... but I am terrified to kill them. I just don't know what to do

[@natureatyourdoor]

Very very unlikely if you move them they will survive.

[@joycestempa5647]

Shocked to come into work one day to see a coworker with three of these on her desk in a vase. When I told her what they were and said they were protected, she looked at me like I was crazy and said she had lots of them in her yard and she digs them up and moves them around all the time and nobody in her family has ever heard such a thing about them and that basically I should mind my own business because I had said what a shame it was that she picked them because they were so rare……Hillbillies, go figure!!

[@natureatyourdoor]

😯

[@freakygardener8033]

MN state flower is the lady slipper!

[@natureatyourdoor]

👍👍👍👍😃

[@phonloc2564]

Is this flower similar to orchids?

[@natureatyourdoor]

Yes! :-) Cypripedium acaule is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae.

[@phonloc2564]

@@natureatyourdoor thank you very much your videos are interesting. We have like mines all the things you do is the same. Learning new information on plants and critters thank you for the knowledge sir. Have a good day and keep up the good work. God bless you and stay safe thanks once again.

[@natureatyourdoor]

@@phonloc2564 you are welcome Phon! Send me questions anytime! :-)

[@crystalcoast2070]

Just let Indigenous people tell their own stories. Asking an Ojibwe person to tell this story could have led you to pronounce Ojibwe properly or consider that most Indigenous people don't want to be called "Indian".

[@natureatyourdoor]

Sincerest apologies Ms B. I actually worried about that pronunciation and I am trying to present native plants and get out of my own ethnocentric thinking. I want to share that European white sellers did not "discover" these plants...they were of course known and part of culture of indingeous peoples. If I used the word "Indian" I apologize ..it slipped out as a part of my 60 yr cultural language. I think it is important to share these stories because out is something I respect and value. I hear what you are saying and will reflect on your words. Your guidance in my personal journey is appreciated.

[@crystalcoast2070]

@@natureatyourdoor it's best to say just that. It would have taken 30 seconds to look up the proper pronunciation, or better yet, ask an Ojibwe person. If you had, they could have guided you. You can acknowledge that Indigenous people used these plants as medicine without telling stories that aren't yours.

[@natureatyourdoor]

@@crystalcoast2070 understood. Thank you for taking time to share that with me.

[@natureatyourdoor]

The words "don't tell stories that aren't yours" resonant with me. Thank you for your guidance.

[@crystalcoast2070]

@@natureatyourdoor thanks for hearing me. Others having been speaking for Indigenous people for a long time instead of simply amplifying their voices.