Hi Jim and all, I've been growing this plant in bog containers, shallow troughs filled with either NJ Pinelands "sugar sand" or with live sphagnum. Watered with rain water or distilled, if that runs out, they take full sun in the summer and are exposed to winter freeze and wind with no protection. This year I have seed pods on them frompollen collected off wild Platanthera bicolor, ciliaris, and clavellata. Bonaventure Magrys