In the never ending cleaning and re-potting that I am still doing – another task has been added to the madness. Flower maintenance. There’s quite a few plants that I am not going to use in hybridizing this year. I have to be selective. (That’s what I tell myself every year.) That said, I may let the unused plant bloom for a bit, enjoy the flowers … then lop em off.
Below were some defunct flowers that got bent out of shape from my recent re-potting efforts. The stress and movement of re-potting caused the flowers to bend/fall over in all these weird directions. I was not planning on using this particular S. flava clone in hybridization this year, so I just cut the flower stalks off to (hopefully) help the plant redirect energy to foliar growth.
They can kinda still make for a nice shot, at least. Such pretty compost material…
Sarracenia flava flowers
