Cypripedium Paul Purple/Lavender Flowering Plants The small ruffled flowers have

The small ruffled flowers have a unique white circle where the petals flare open

The tidy gardener might want to cut the stems to the ground at this point

starting in mid-April (NC) with 10" tall flower spikes

Every spring during open house

The 4' tall stalks are topped from midsummer through early fall with 7" wide heavily-textured flowers with nicely overlapping petals

Cypripedium Paul Purple/Lavender Flowering Plants The small ruffled flowers haveCypripedium 'Paul' is a 2009 Werner Frosch hybrid of Cypripedium parviflorum v. parviflorum and Cypripedium franchetii that makes a nice clump, topped in mid spring with 13" tall stalks of creamy white pockets surrounded by twisted burgundy cinnamon sepals. Our offerings of Cypripedium 'Paul' are all flowering sized plants. Planting your Cypripedium orchid.