*RETAIL - Bletilla [Light Pink] Fragrant Leaves White to very pale orange

White to very pale orange flowers occur mid autumn with occasional blooms spring and summer- smell of warm baking apricots

Crown can be submerged below the water level

each pad nearly round with thick

Frost hardy in the upper teens F

One of our best native groundcovers for the dry woodland with 4-6" leaves on spreading plants to 1 ft tall or so forming clumps to 6 ft wide

*RETAIL - Bletilla [Light Pink] Fragrant Leaves White to very pale orangeThis soft pink colored seedling, also among the most vigorous, producing 3' clumps in as many years, also a large number of flowers to about 18" to 2' in height. Deciduous, the leaves emerge in early spring, flowers emerging in spring through early summer. It took a while to dawn on us that this plant, counter to our intuition, likes bright sun along with rich soil and consistent water. Definitely worth the effort. USDA Zone 5. HARDY GROUND ORCHID