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Tom...you forgot alligators...several of my nature photography friends have had closer-than-comfortable encounters with the monstrous reptiles. All my trips to the Fakahatchee have been, thankfully, gator-free, aside from a medium-sized one scrambling off the road as we drove by. Paphreek...

Well, I understand I won't persuade you, Naoki, but for others who might be watching this thread, let me clarify. Corkscrew Swamp does not involve camping, backpacking, rafting, or canoeing. It hardly even counts as hiking. Corkscrew Swamp has an elevated, 2.25-mile boardwalk that meanders...

Did I mention that at Corkscrew, you will see a significant population of native orchids and bromeliads in their natural environment, all within view of a 2-mile boardwalk above the water, as well as a number of animals (birds, especially) that will mill around as if the tourists on the...

There is apparently a guy near Gainesville, Florida, that cultivates and sells these...since they reproduce vegetatively as well as by seed, they should be easy to cultivate and share with others. ---Prem

Bleagh...Universal...skip the touristy crap and take a day trip down to the Naples area and visit Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and get a taste of the real Florida. You won't be sorry. ---Prem

Tom--yes, I managed to find some. Interestingly enough, when I arrived back in the Orlando area from my trip, I had an e-mail from someone else who had found my site asking for an ID of their yard orchids...same species growing about five miles from where I was photographing that day...

I happened to come across a post in a gardening forum where someone in the Brooksville, FL area was asking for the ID of a particular plant in her yard, wondering if it was an orchid. It turned out she had Habenaria quinqueseta growing in her yard. I requested to go to her house and...

This one was largely unspotted...I must admit...I clone-stamped out a few minor thrips bites/brown spots. ---Prem

White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis v. conspicua): I have updated my blog with the remainder of the 'Holding Court With Royalty' series detailing the showy Platanthera orchids found in the boggy areas of Florida. Attached is one photo of the Queen of the Bog, Platanthera...

Time to go stare angrily at mine! ---Prem

Thanks for all the kind words, folks! Tom, I hear that these are still pretty common in the area just to the north of Jacksonville, which is where Okeefenokee is located, so not to worry. In an area to the southwest of Tallahassee, they bloom over an extended time from early June into mid...

I have updated my blog with part 1 of a multi-part series covering the royal court of the bog orchids - the Platantheras. Our first visit is to the delicate, early-rising princess, Platanthera nivea, variously known as Habenaria nivea and Gymnadeniopsis nivea. Here is one of the photos taken...

SlipperFan, Peter is, of course, correct in that I did not actually document the transfer of pollen from one flower to another...I caught a fleeting glimpse of a visitor that might be a pollinator. With Triphoras, it might be harder to document pollen transfer than with other orchids...

Tom, I'd love to find the standard variety in flower as well...if you could give me the approximate location of your old place, perhaps I could find some publicly accessible wooded areas nearby that contained these as well. --Prem

I have updated by blog with images from a recent trip to photograph the king of all the NA Habenarias with two-inch wide flowers and six-inch long nectaries. Here is one photo as a teaser: The rest of the photos can be seen on my blog: Florida's Native Orchids Two years ago, I was...