Do we have anything close to blooming yet? I'm planning on walking my trails on Saturday. Last year, I'm pretty sure they were blooming either this or next weekend. But if anyone (Ron Burch?) knows more, let me know.

Thanks!

Hope you find some and take some good pics! :D

i live in ny i am starting to see jack-in-the pulpit i am going to virgina on saturday for 10 days and whenever i am there i always see these cool orchids i think they are called rattlesnake orchid?? low to the ground with the flower spike coming out of the center of the leaves like a paph. i will take pictures

I plan to take a good look on Sunday but my guess is that it will be next weekend for the great bloom here in CT. It has been so cold that all the Cyps are running about a week or so late - but the flowers are lasting a long time as well!

Ron Burch

Guess I will have to go for a hike this weekend see what I can find.

Cyp pubescens is in full bloom in my garden right now...next weekend I go to my LI place, and hopefully the acaule's will be in full bloom...I hope they won't be fading by then....Take care, Eric

I didn't get out, partly due to comments here. Will try for next Saturday. Weather "supposed" to be nicer also. Rain and cold until Saturday though. :roll:

The acaule in NW CT are in "lax bud." If it gets out of the 50's by the end of the week, then they should be in full bloom by Memorial Day.

Ron Burch

Cool! Thanks Ron!

It's been so cold & wet & miserable here in Maine that I haven't taken my usual walks this month. There are some places here by the river where I've seen these. They are elusive here. Each year, they seem to migrate to another spot. Don't know whether the rain has messed things up this year. Next good day, I will go out with digital camera and see what I can find.

Two Years ago, in Upstate NY, the Jack-in-the-Pulpits were out in the first week of June. Georgous! I haven't seen them here in Maine. Maybe we are too cold here?

It's been so cold & wet & miserable here in Maine that I haven't taken my usual walks this month. There are some places here by the river where I've seen these. They are elusive here. Each year, they seem to migrate to another spot. Don't know whether the rain has messed things up this year. Next good day, I will go out with digital camera and see what I can find.

Two Years ago, in Upstate NY, the Jack-in-the-Pulpits were out in the first week of June. Georgous! I haven't seen them here in Maine. Maybe we are too cold here?

I'm in the same boat down here, Susan. I am pretty sure last year I was out around the 27th and saw my wild ones. So...next weekend or the following for me. For you maybe as much as a week later. Been so miserable here, many things are late in blooming, I think.

At work, where I never have time to go walking, we have had Trillium and Jack in the Pulpit in the past. But since I've been on the visitor side and not the taking groups on trails side, I've been unable to catch them. Garden in the Woods in Framingham has been my best bet the last couple years.

I also live near a quacking bog. We have great pitcher plants and cranberries! Also nice Tamerack trees. Hard to get down there though in weather like this - I can't walk out there w/out getting wet! I am always surprised I don't see aucaule in this area, very piney with lots of Mountain Laurel.

Oh yes I have seen Jacks here in the Maine forests. I have also seen Cyps but some were poached and never seen again! :mad:

Hahaha, I didn't mean a QUACKING bog, a QUAKING bog. Sorry about that! :roll:

No ducks there...

Hee Hee! We have ducks running aroung here and they are loving the wet weather, nesting on eggs, and QUACKING. :poke:

Seriously though, what is a Quaking Bog? I imagine something very spongy. Maybe like the Moors in England? They were weird. The terrain was both hilly but very spongy with all this beautiful heather and heath!

Seriously though, what is a Quaking Bog? I imagine something very spongy. Maybe like the Moors in England? They were weird. The terrain was both hilly but very spongy with all this beautiful heather and heath!

I haven't been on the moors (despite my name, hahaha) but I think they are different. Quaking bogs "are wetlands that have formed across the surface of shallow ponds. These ponds are characterized by slow groundwater flow, which causes the pond water to be acidic and low in dissolved oxygen (DO). The roots and rhizomes of invading wetland plants form floating mats across the pond, which creates an unstable, "quaking" surface."

This is a really good description of the habitat.
http://www.theeagle.com/brazossunday/travel/052902quakingbog.htm

Our bog is actually much smaller than it once was - now on the maps it is called Long Swamp as so much of it has filled in. It is a sphagnum moss mat. I haven't been out there in a while but when it is wet, the boards are so submerged you can't walk out there w/out geting very wet indeed.

Heather, any signs of Cyps blooming in your area? Got the equipment working?

Heather, any signs of Cyps blooming in your area? Got the equipment working?

I was just thinking of this.
Ron, any in CT yet?
Been so rainy and so flipping cold lately, I'm sure they are behind.

I'll be heading out tomorrow, I hope G has the equipment figured out - will ask him tonight, but I'll go either way. Supposed to be 73 degrees and mostly sunny, I'm sure hoping for a nice day!

Do you have the yellow ones in your neck of the woods? :lol:

Do you have the yellow ones in your neck of the woods? :lol:

I've never seen any wild in Massachusetts, nope.

I'm pretty sure they are native to your state, you just have to go looking for them. I love the larger yellow ones!

I will hopefully go for a hike this weekend! I'll bring my camera just in case!

Just got back from my Long Island summer place...my acaule's were in full, perfect bloom. I pollinated 2 of them. Only disappointment was that a 20 year old clump did not come up this year...probably permanently deceased. The last few years it had been developing a fungus infection early in the summer. I wasn't willing to use fungicides, as I was afraid that they would just kill the plant outright. Fortunately no other plants have gotten it yet. Take care, Eric