cernua var.odorata CHADDS FORD

Spiranthus cernue var.odorata `Chadds Ford', white, 18-20", September-November. The MOST FRAGRANT selection of our "Lady's Tresses" and made right here in our famous Chadds Ford valley! Somewhere near the Chadds Ford winery? Another of these most liked by the hummingbirds. How can you not when the flower spikes, looking like orchids, are packed with EXTRA LARGE, tubular flowers having the scent of VANILLA and JASMINE! Slowly forming a colony the fragrance is permiating! Easily mixed in the trade with the species one can discern this by the amount of flowers on the stalks and the bold fragrance. Discovered back when our "sense were keen" in the 1960s by an orchid fancier, Dick Ryan, just before the habitat near his home town of Bear, Delaware. So beautiful this was, it was awarded the Certificate of Cultural merit from the American Orchid Society. Shade, moist and drained. NATIVE! zone 5 "Lady's Trusses", "Nodding Lady's Trusses"