This was a much needed escape. Spent the past few weeks stressing and studying to finish the semester strong, so great to be done and have a chance to destress with some nature. Also got a chance to go to the garden center and just got my garden started, starting off small, will build it up over time, didn’t realize how expensive some of these gorgeous plants can be. But someday I’ll own some orchids for myself. 👍🏻
Thank you for the suggestions on both counts. I will monitor the Piperia & keep you informed. And I am thinking to put my Paph in a wider pot, or basket like yours & move it outside for the summer. My north facing patio (shaded by the 3 storey building) gets some direct sun for a short while early morning & late afternoon, better than a grow light anyway. Something like a hanging basket or bonsai dish would give those rhizomes a chance to spread out. I am also hoping to build a little bamboo unit with shade cloth or slat roof to put my Neofinetias & Neo crosses out for the summer too. All a grand experiment!
I moved to southern Vancouver Island from Osaka three years ago. I'm a new subscriber here and when I saw the thumbnail I was like "wait they have fairy slippers in Japan too!?" lol. I grew up in a city so I don't know much about Japanese flora unfortunately. East Sooke is definitely one of the parks I wanna visit! Thanks for a beautiful video. :)
That's a pretty big move! The Calypso in this video were the first I've seen in flower myself. I've see plants for decades in the western US, but always out of flower. What takes you back about them in flower is their tiny size - the whole plant could fit in your hand. Japan's higher mountains do indeed have C. bulbosa from Central Honshu up to Hokkaido, but as the climate warms they are in danger of disappearing. Get out to Sooke, you'll love the trails along the coast. If you go in early May, keep an eye out for this tiny plant growing in open woods in grassy areas.
@@botanyboy1 I saw one for the first time the other day and I was amazed by their minute size as well! This ecosystem has so many different species of pretty flowers to offer and I love spring here so much. And damn I didn't know C. bulbosa actually existed in Japan😳 Next time if I go back in the right season I need to go on a hike!
You had this one up your sleeve. Very nice and to see your other half added that personal touch great stuff. I did sent you an gmail hope you got it from Queenslamd Australia. Have a great day.
Yup, been sitting on the hard drive for almost a year now. Had a BUNCH of editing to do though, but that's another story. Sorry about not responding to the mail yet, university started this week and I got way too busy!
Thank you for sharing this, what a lovely video. I will be sharing with my wild orchid enthusiast friends. Tis the season for fairy slippers. Yesterday I visited my local patch in Parksville, also on Vancouver Island, to see how they were faring. Another good year it would seem. :-)
I am sorry to hear the Japanese subspecies are endangered . Of course our human population is burgeoning too, so if we are not careful we could have trouble. I know in the Victoria area there is a charitable fundraiser going on towards purchasing some land that has a good Calypso population, to save it from development.
@@valeriemelanson4131 It is nice that efforts are being made to conserve more habitat, particularly around urban centers like Victoria. This species is actually globally secure, in large measure because not many people want to live in the places it prefers to grow - boreal forests. Vancouver Island is an exception, but luckily the species is fairly common in that area.
botanyboy1 Thank you for the info about the world situation in general. That is reassuring. NB: There were some pairs of leaves at the Parksville site that look rather like Piperia conversation. I will return frequently to watch for a flower stock to confirm. I look forward to your next video. I enjoyed your series on lockdown gardening. I have a Paphiopedilum armeniacum from Wenqing Perner. I am grateful for the info you gave on it. How much light do you estimate your plant gets on average? I have mine indoors under a grow light where it gets 1,000 footcandles. I wonder if that is too much. Getting enough light & humidity indoors is a challenge.
Hi Tom, You couldn’t have timed your visit more perfectly for all the spring ephemerals. So nice to see Calypso bulbosa in the wilds - I’ve successfully cultivated Arethusa bulbosa & Goodyera pubescens in my former garden. Was that Usnea longissima festooning the taller shrubs? I only wish I could cultivate epiphytes like that or the lush hummocks of Tillandsia usneoides dangling from the shrubs in your garden...kuyashii!!! Take care & stay safe. Best, John.
Wow, I always wanted to grow Arethusa... Yes, we were lucky to go that time of year, period. In Japan stringing enough days together to form a reasonably long vacation to visit another country is a challenge, but we got lucky in 2019 due to an extra long "Golden Week" due to the new emperor coming in, etc. In fact it was an once in a lifetime chance for most working age Japanese people, including my wife and her friend Yasuko (seen at the end of the video). Yup, definitely Usnea, but I wouldn't want to dig into the mess of identifying the species, I'm not qualified. There are said to be over 20 species of Usnea in British Columbia alone! They certainly to lend a magical atmosphere to the landscape. Thanks for commenting John.
I would have said Fritilaria atropurpurea, but that's just the one I'm familiar with, and I also said Dodacatheon pulchellum, Camassia quamash. So glad you put the names in.
Actually I thought it was D. pulchellum at first too, but my friend "D" steered me in the right direction. One distinguishing feature with D. hendersonii are its broad leaves (ovate), whereas D. pulchellum are more elongated (lanceolate).
North America has 4 confirmed species of Goodyera - pubescens, oblongifolia, repens and tesselata. G. repens is found throughout the boreal/cold temperate regions of the northern hemisphere from northern Europe to China and Japan and into North America all the way to the Atlantic coast - so it shares a range similar to the Calypso. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@botanyboy1 that's so interesting to know. I have a few jewel orchids and when I got my first one some years ago, there was very little information available. I live in the UK and it's good to learn that Europe has these as well as the bee orchids to see out in nature.
Hello, thank you very much for the great content, and for uploading regularly new videos, I really appreciate! In the future, is it possible to see your neofinetia collection indetail: what fuukiran do you grow, how do you grow them ect (I already red all articles about fuukiran on your blog, but could be interesting to see all that in a video I think)..? Domo arigato
Hmm... had to really think about this. The broad answer is "no", mostly due to the radially different climates. In terms of similar/same genera they share, they both have species in the tree genera Abies, Acer, Alnus, Cornus, Pinus, Populus, Quercus, and Tsuga, but now my mind is taxed to the limit and it hurts. The forest in Fukuoka has more in common with the evergreen broad-leaf forests of say north Florida by comparison. Biogeography - a fascinating topic in itself!
@@botanyboy1 interesting. Also some of those genera can be found native to south east asian rain forests as well. In malaysia Acer laurinum is a native maple species. Its widely distributed in south east asia even extending down to the southern hemisphere in Java . Along with about 6 Qercus species. We have a higher diversity of Lithocarpus than Quercus
@@viiiderekae It is not too surprising that Malaysian forests have common elements with forests here in southern Japan since we are at the northern end of the East Asian Laurel Forest Ecoregion. Western Canada is far removed from this type of forest, while surprisingly parts of eastern North America are more closely associated with it. Explanations for this are usually that this forest type extended across the northern hemisphere, and was broken "into two" by mountain building in the American west, desertification in the some regions, and of course the many ice ages that have come and gone over the past few million years. As I said, a fascinating subject. BTW, one day I'd love to come to Malaysia to see your incredible forests!
This was a much needed escape. Spent the past few weeks stressing and studying to finish the semester strong, so great to be done and have a chance to destress with some nature. Also got a chance to go to the garden center and just got my garden started, starting off small, will build it up over time, didn’t realize how expensive some of these gorgeous plants can be. But someday I’ll own some orchids for myself. 👍🏻
Another lovely video. What a nice surprise that it's from Vancouver! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing! I enjoy all your videos but my favourite ones are the expeditions 😊
Then I will expedite more expeditions! Until this mess is over, they will have to remain local ;(
I appreciate the 4K, thanks. I find Calypo orchids on old tailing piles on my mining claim in WY.
Thanks for the video,full of life yet serene and peaceful. Love it,from meghalaya,northeast india.
Beautiful flowers! Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful video! Thanks so much!
Glad to see you are back!
Thanks! And I remember you too. Thanks for watching!
🌷🌹🌼🌸🌷🌹🌷🌹مكان جميل الزهور جميله احسنت النشر ⚘🥀🌺💐🌱☘
You visited my homeland! Glad you liked your trip 😊
Wonderful video! Thanks
Thank you for the suggestions on both counts. I will monitor the Piperia & keep you informed. And I am thinking to put my Paph in a wider pot, or basket like yours & move it outside for the summer. My north facing patio (shaded by the 3 storey building) gets some direct sun for a short while early morning & late afternoon, better than a grow light anyway. Something like a hanging basket or bonsai dish would give those rhizomes a chance to spread out. I am also hoping to build a little bamboo unit with shade cloth or slat roof to put my Neofinetias & Neo crosses out for the summer too. All a grand experiment!
Good luck with all of your plants!
Spent yesterday digging up my enormous clump of Sedum spathulifolium
, dividing and replanting it. So nice to see it feature in this video.
They are lovely plants, aren't they? Great to have a cold hardy, lovely succulent like that. BTW, do you grow S. palmeri? It is another beauty IMO.
@@botanyboy1 A real beauty. Must look out for it.
I moved to southern Vancouver Island from Osaka three years ago. I'm a new subscriber here and when I saw the thumbnail I was like "wait they have fairy slippers in Japan too!?" lol. I grew up in a city so I don't know much about Japanese flora unfortunately. East Sooke is definitely one of the parks I wanna visit! Thanks for a beautiful video. :)
That's a pretty big move! The Calypso in this video were the first I've seen in flower myself. I've see plants for decades in the western US, but always out of flower. What takes you back about them in flower is their tiny size - the whole plant could fit in your hand. Japan's higher mountains do indeed have C. bulbosa from Central Honshu up to Hokkaido, but as the climate warms they are in danger of disappearing. Get out to Sooke, you'll love the trails along the coast. If you go in early May, keep an eye out for this tiny plant growing in open woods in grassy areas.
@@botanyboy1 I saw one for the first time the other day and I was amazed by their minute size as well! This ecosystem has so many different species of pretty flowers to offer and I love spring here so much. And damn I didn't know C. bulbosa actually existed in Japan😳 Next time if I go back in the right season I need to go on a hike!
Very cool, this is the 2nd video of yours I've watched- I subscribed.
This is a thing of beauty! 🤗 thank you!
You had this one up your sleeve. Very nice and to see your other half added that personal touch great stuff. I did sent you an gmail hope you got it from Queenslamd Australia. Have a great day.
Yup, been sitting on the hard drive for almost a year now. Had a BUNCH of editing to do though, but that's another story. Sorry about not responding to the mail yet, university started this week and I got way too busy!
Thank you for sharing this, what a lovely video. I will be sharing with my wild orchid enthusiast friends. Tis the season for fairy slippers. Yesterday I visited my local patch in Parksville, also on Vancouver Island, to see how they were faring. Another good year it would seem. :-)
It is nice this species remains relatively common in your area. Here in Japan there are two varieties of it, however both are endangered.
I am sorry to hear the Japanese subspecies are endangered . Of course our human population is burgeoning too, so if we are not careful we could have trouble. I know in the Victoria area there is a charitable fundraiser going on towards purchasing some land that has a good Calypso population, to save it from development.
@@valeriemelanson4131 It is nice that efforts are being made to conserve more habitat, particularly around urban centers like Victoria. This species is actually globally secure, in large measure because not many people want to live in the places it prefers to grow - boreal forests. Vancouver Island is an exception, but luckily the species is fairly common in that area.
botanyboy1 Thank you for the info about the world situation in general. That is reassuring. NB: There were some pairs of leaves at the Parksville site that look rather like Piperia conversation. I will return frequently to watch for a flower stock to confirm. I look forward to your next video. I enjoyed your series on lockdown gardening. I have a Paphiopedilum armeniacum from Wenqing Perner. I am grateful for the info you gave on it. How much light do you estimate your plant gets on average? I have mine indoors under a grow light where it gets 1,000 footcandles. I wonder if that is too much. Getting enough light & humidity indoors is a challenge.
Sorry! Bad spelling courtesy of autocorrect/insert. Make that Piperia transversa aka Platanthera transversa.
Hi Tom,
You couldn’t have timed your visit more perfectly for all the spring ephemerals. So nice to see Calypso bulbosa in the wilds - I’ve successfully cultivated Arethusa bulbosa & Goodyera pubescens in my former garden. Was that Usnea longissima festooning the taller shrubs? I only wish I could cultivate epiphytes like that or the lush hummocks of Tillandsia usneoides dangling from the shrubs in your garden...kuyashii!!! Take care & stay safe. Best, John.
Wow, I always wanted to grow Arethusa...
Yes, we were lucky to go that time of year, period. In Japan stringing enough days together to form a reasonably long vacation to visit another country is a challenge, but we got lucky in 2019 due to an extra long "Golden Week" due to the new emperor coming in, etc. In fact it was an once in a lifetime chance for most working age Japanese people, including my wife and her friend Yasuko (seen at the end of the video).
Yup, definitely Usnea, but I wouldn't want to dig into the mess of identifying the species, I'm not qualified. There are said to be over 20 species of Usnea in British Columbia alone! They certainly to lend a magical atmosphere to the landscape. Thanks for commenting John.
I would have said Fritilaria atropurpurea, but that's just the one I'm familiar with, and I also said Dodacatheon pulchellum, Camassia quamash. So glad you put the names in.
Actually I thought it was D. pulchellum at first too, but my friend "D" steered me in the right direction. One distinguishing feature with D. hendersonii are its broad leaves (ovate), whereas D. pulchellum are more elongated (lanceolate).
How interesting to find Goodyera there! I thought they only grew out in the wild in Asia. Lovely landscape photography.
North America has 4 confirmed species of Goodyera - pubescens, oblongifolia, repens and tesselata. G. repens is found throughout the boreal/cold temperate regions of the northern hemisphere from northern Europe to China and Japan and into North America all the way to the Atlantic coast - so it shares a range similar to the Calypso. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@botanyboy1 that's so interesting to know. I have a few jewel orchids and when I got my first one some years ago, there was very little information available. I live in the UK and it's good to learn that Europe has these as well as the bee orchids to see out in nature.
Hello, thank you very much for the great content, and for uploading regularly new videos, I really appreciate! In the future, is it possible to see your neofinetia collection indetail: what fuukiran do you grow, how do you grow them ect (I already red all articles about fuukiran on your blog, but could be interesting to see all that in a video I think)..? Domo arigato
Ha ha. I will indeed post more about them - particularly during their flowering season in a couple months from now.
super....🤗🤗
Were there any simillarities between the species composition of this forest and that of fukuoka ?
Hmm... had to really think about this. The broad answer is "no", mostly due to the radially different climates. In terms of similar/same genera they share, they both have species in the tree genera Abies, Acer, Alnus, Cornus, Pinus, Populus, Quercus, and Tsuga, but now my mind is taxed to the limit and it hurts. The forest in Fukuoka has more in common with the evergreen broad-leaf forests of say north Florida by comparison. Biogeography - a fascinating topic in itself!
@@botanyboy1 interesting. Also some of those genera can be found native to south east asian rain forests as well.
In malaysia Acer laurinum is a native maple species. Its widely distributed in south east asia even extending down to the southern hemisphere in Java . Along with about 6 Qercus species. We have a higher diversity of Lithocarpus than Quercus
@@viiiderekae It is not too surprising that Malaysian forests have common elements with forests here in southern Japan since we are at the northern end of the East Asian Laurel Forest Ecoregion. Western Canada is far removed from this type of forest, while surprisingly parts of eastern North America are more closely associated with it. Explanations for this are usually that this forest type extended across the northern hemisphere, and was broken "into two" by mountain building in the American west, desertification in the some regions, and of course the many ice ages that have come and gone over the past few million years. As I said, a fascinating subject. BTW, one day I'd love to come to Malaysia to see your incredible forests!