[Sarracenia courtii, anthocyanin free clone]
Ah, how I love these AF plants! I think this plant is a fun and goofy one. Here’s S. courtii (AF clone) stretching and sprawling out on this lazy weekend…
[Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa v. burkii f. luteola]
Here’s the first open pitcher of this lovely luteola this season. This plant was received a few years ago as a small seedling from Bob Ziemer. (Thank you Bob!) It’s been a joy to watch it grow year by year, and I hope to get it flowering next year. More information on this plant here. It has a couple more pitchers forming and I’ll take another photo when more pitchers are open. Ah, looking quite lovely there, luteola.
[Sarracenia leucophylla “red” x purpurea ssp. purpurea – AF, Cross created by Jerry Addington.]
This plant was sent to me as a seedling a couple years ago , created by good friend Jerry Addington. The pollen parent, (S. purpurea ssp. purpurea – AF) is an anthocyanin free (AF) plant. Even with one of the pollen parents devoid of pigment, the resulting progeny still has outstanding color and will color up even stronger as it gets deeper in the growing season. And if you’re wondering – yeah, the back of the plant is the side that faces the sun the whole day, but eventually that color will wrap all around. In conversations with Jerry, he speculates that the AF parentage in crosses (as in … with AF purps) lends itself to adding to a particular “glow” to the plant. It’s something worth looking into for me – and being that there’s recessive AF genes in the mix, it should make for interesting breeding lines down the road. RAD!
BEWARE! The Green Monster is awake… some freshly opened pitchers, and flowering soon too!
[Sarracenia “Green Monster”, an anthocyanin free excellens.]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I know I’m putting this up late and for those of you in other time zones, it aint St. Patty’s day anymore. Anywhoo, for St. Patty’s day, the green feature is an anthocyanin free courtii, and it’s flower is just starting to open! YAY! Took this photo today… I am looking forward to hybridizing with this one again this year! Woohoo! Go Green!
[Sarracenia courtii, anthocyanin free]
Ah, so I’m finally over this flu cold thing. Feelin’ much better.
So a while back I posted about one of my very first anthocyanin free hybrids that I crossed – Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – Anthocyanin Free Clone.
So this is just a quick update — It’s been about 3 years and all I can think of is how fast that went by. Really fast. Growing plants and gardening has really gotten me to just appreciate and savor the moments and realize how quickly it all happens. The seedlings from those days are growing up and *many* of them… such as reflected the photo below, are already sending up blooms. That’s straight up awesome right there. 3 years. 3 years ago I was doing a cross with some weird hybridization idea in mind… and now the progeny of that initial idea will be ready to cross again.
[Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – Anthocyanin Free Clone]
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Tagged 3 years flew by just like that, anthocyanin free, pitcher plant project, Sarracenia
Howdy! I’m back.
Last week in Seattle was simply awesome! I loved getting away and going to my home away from home. I miss it up there…
And yeah, I’m working on putting the photos together for ya and it will be a future post… (hope to get it up sooner or later!)
Anyway, the plants seemed happy to see me back … here’s a few shots of the pitchers. When I left they were pretty much closed off but have opened during the week while I was out. Oh, what a nice welcome back home…
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[Sarracenia “Nadine”]
[Sarracenia “Halo of Fire”]
[Sarracenia purpurea hybrid, anthocyanin free]
[Sarracenia umlauftaiana – open when I left, but the coloration got richer whilst I was away!]
[Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – crackin’ a smile! Oh and even better, the coloration will get more intense as the season progresses…]
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Tagged anthocyanin free, Halo of Fire, hybrid, Leah Wilkerson x Adrian Slack, Nadine, Sarracenia, umlauftiana, Welcome home
