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Cypripedium calceolus

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Yann:
Here i grow them in my heavy clay, as in the wild. I think there's a legend about the fact they need a lot of drainage.

In nature they grow in a rich humus and calcareous clayish soil, most often in cold and wet ravines where drainage is quite limited but free flowing during heavy rains.
The first 5-8cm layer is composed of leaves compost and then deeper really heavy clay with very few rounded rock chips.
Beeches like clay, Cypripedium like beeches.

However they're not bog/standing water plants.

To resume nose buds in humus, roots in clay.

Catwheazle:
> Cypripedium like beeches.

Not only.
C. calceolus also loves to watch the sunrise. .... at least my observation here at some wild locations ;-)

Greetings
Bernd

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