Native North American Orchid Sources of Hardy Orchids

If you must have orchids in your garden there are legal and ethical ways to obtain them.

Construction of roads, homes and shopping malls is sometimes a threat to orchid sites. Check with your local laws, but if the orchids will be destroyed if you do nothing, there is little to lose if you do something. There should be some documentation to assure that the orchids were obtained legally. If anyone knows of a specific state's/country's regulations, please let me know so that I can either post them here or link to sites where there is more complete information.

The safest, surest, and most ethical source is the commercial grower who propagates his/her own plants. Some may use tissue culture, others seed, and some vegetative methods, but if they grow their own, they will be able to provide documentation and culture hints as well as plants that are more likely to survive under your care.