To partially remove a flowering stem of a reblooming orchid, find the node below the lowest spent or faded flower. Make a clean, concise cut 1/2 inch above this node.

First try to cut the stem about an inch above one of the nodes. If the stem is healthy and sturdy enough you may get another flower as quickly as two to three months. But if this doesn't work, you ...

I never saw the flower again until last summer I visited a marsh in northern New Jersey, where I had been told by another orchid-hunter that it grew. This marsh I was warned was a dangerous one.