Stream Orchid, Giant Helleborine, or Chatterbox
Epipactis gigantea (ORCHIDACEAE)
Planting and Growing Stream Orchid
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- Season of bloom and planting time for stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- When, how deep, and where to plant stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- How to plant stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- Watering, fertilizing, care and pests or diseases of stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- Landscape and indoor uses of stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox
- Comments about stream orchid, giant helleborine, or chatterbox and its features
Growing Stream Orchid
Summer rhizomatous pseudobulb. Deciduous. Stands to 3 ft. (90 cm) tall. Lance-shaped, deep green leaves, to 8 in. (20 cm) long.
Stream Orchid Planting and Care Guide
Flowers
Summer. Pink, rose, with contrasting veins. Multiple nodding, orchidlike flowers, to 1 in. (25 mm) long, in long, trailing spikes.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 9–10.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained sand and humus or, in water features, shoreline sites. Fertility: Rich. 6.0–6.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in full sun. Space 2–3 ft. (60–90 cm) apart, 4–6 in. (10–15 cm) deep. Plant in buried containers to establish and maintain rich soil needs.
Proper Care
Moderate. Keep evenly moist. Fertilize until buds form. Remove withered foliage. Mulch. Protect from heat. Propagate by cuttings, division, seed.
Lifting and Storing
In-ground. Maintain year-round.
About This Species
Good choice for accents, beds, borders in natural, rock gardens and water feature shorelines. Disease resistant. Threatened, endangered.