One of my Sarracenias flowered this year for the first time. The flower has been around for a while but photos of it haven't really turned out well so far until this one.
The carnivorous plants are starting to grow again after their winter dormancy.
These ones are indoor windowsill ones grown from seed on sphagnum moss. #CarnivorousPlants#Drosera#Sarracenia#SavageGarden
“And your new hobby will shove you into a strange world. There’s something dark in the pits of those pitchers, and it’s not the rotting bugs. If you fall in, you may land in an acidic soup of crime, addiction, and existential angst.”
“Mat Orchard thought he could handle Nepenthes. They nearly ate him alive.”
(Don’t worry about me, I only grow common & easy types)
Brought these outside for the first time this year to get some sun and fresh air. They started coming out of dormancy a few weeks ago (I reset the wintering bulb light timers every few weeks to follow sunrise/sunset). They'll be going in and out of the house until they fully acclimate to outside again.
The Australian Pitcherplant has the cutest little pitchers. It’s not closely related to Sarracenia (American Pitcherplants) or to Nepenthes (Tropical Pitcherplants), but instead to things like Oxalis (Wood Sorrel). These kind of insect-catching hollow leaves have evolved independently three times in the flowering plants.
I’m wondering whether this butterwort (Pinguicula) is making a bud. Haven’t had any flowers on butterworts yet. Very excited.
Not sure which species. It had pink leaves but the new ones came in green. The newer new ones are showing some pink. Probably to do with letting it sit uncovered sometimes (direct light)?
Celia is blooming! She's my fav pitcher plant, a weed found in some moss I bought, often does some tequila sunrise colors, thus Celia named after Celia Hodes on Weeds. Now I will be able to self pollinate her, and find clues to her parentage by examining what comes up, as well as maybe get a similar but even more beautiful plant :). I haven't seen a mostly veinless pitcher that produced such color, but I am only a dabbler. #gardening#CarnivorousPlants
Look a bit closer at this photo. See the red sticky-uppy things? They're a carnivorous plant - Alpine Sundew (Drosera arcturi) - that feeds on insects that stick to the side hairs.
When I was taking this photo, I didn't see them because of my colour-blindness. I just liked the carpet of green of the Snow Cushion (Donatia novae-zelandiae) with it's little flowers turning from white through orange to brown...
It feels like everyone who grows these has had a late start this season, but it's finally that tuberous #drosera time of year again.
A couple of views of my D. tubaestylis, the first of my tuberous to get going. Two different plants from the same pot. One smaller specimen, the other flowering size.
A day of discovering delicious food and exploring vibrant plant nurseries @ Sungai Buloh.
This area, once home to the second-largest leprosy settlement called the Valley of Hope, now thrives with beautiful nurseries which were once managed by leprosy patients, some of whom are still tending to the greenery.
Sigh. I suppose my current life situation means I shouldn't be ignoring my side hustle so much, so I guess this is the time to point out I have the perfect image for you to send on a postcard to your bestie to commend their predatory nature and how inspirational it is.
Everybody knows how tree shrews poop in Nepenthes pitchers on Mount Kinabalu but few ppl seem to be talking about how geckoes are super attracted to and addicted to Nepenthes nectar.
(It’s a problem for my plants because the geckos tend to poop in the soil or the water tray, which makes the soil overly fertile. I have a spray bottle ready nearby for whenever I see them, which is literally whenever I’m not looking at the plants.)
Nepenthes gracilis “squat” is such an underrated lowland pitcher plant that for some reason, I don’t see mentioned very often outside of the Southeast Asian cp hobbyist community. It’s tiny & compact (like, FAR more compact than either the normal forms of gracilis and ampullaria), it’s easy to grow, its leaves are tiny compared to its pitchers. #CarnivorousPlants#SavageGarden