Stalking the Wild Orchid

Sadly, wild plant pilfering happens all the time. People can be stupifingly self-centered & just plain evil when it comes to rare vegetation - as chronicled famously in The Orchid Thief. But maybe too I am a little more trusting, I didn't ask the NY Times reporter to don a blindfold.

Here, garden writer Ken Druse takes a walk with the Nature Conservancy in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey...and I am jealous.Read more