Root diggers also damage populations ... Where they grow is anyone’s guess! All lady slipper orchids are pollinated by bees and carpenter ants, to mention a few possibilities.

Lady's slipper walk, 1-2:30 p.m., Jay Cooke State Park. Meet in front of the River Inn Visitor Center and go on a 2-mile guided hike to the hillside of yellow lady's slipper flowers. Free, state park ...

Metro Atlanta and North Georgia are laced with hiking trails of every description and level of challenge, and a number of them seem better suited to those 55-plus.

The first new wild lady's slipper orchid has been found in the wild for the first time in nearly 100 years. Credit: PA Images A decades-long bid to bring back one of Britain’s “rarest and most ...

Conservationists now hope the lady’s-slipper orchid, which came close to vanishing from the English countryside, could one day be restored across its former range. The striking lady’s-slipper ...

Conservationists now hope the lady’s-slipper orchid, which came close to vanishing from the English countryside, could one day be restored across its former range. The striking lady’s-slipper ...

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Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the discovery of the first new plant in the wild in almost a century.

The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside. Now, work by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to reintroduce plants into suitable habitats has seen it found again.