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The Princes

Posted on September 5, 2013 | 3 comments

Here are some of the “princes” that are are growing in the garden.

Sarracenia "Dark Prince"
Sarracenia “Dark Prince”
A beautiful S. readii cross created by Brooks Garcia that involves S. leucophylla “Wilkerson’s Red Rocket”

Sarracenia “Dark Prince”
A beautiful S. readii cross created by Brooks Garcia that involves S. leucophylla “Wilkerson’s Red Rocket”

Sarracenia “Green Prince”
An anthocyanin free cross (S. “Green Monster” x leucophylla AF) by Bill Smith of Rarefind Nursery.

S. ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”
This is a select S. ‘Alucard’ (S. flava var. rubricorpora x ‘Royal Ruby’) created by Phil Faulisi is looking quite crispy this time of year. This monster puts on a brilliant show of deep red large pitchers in the spring averaging 3 feet tall or more as you can see here. However, by the time fall rolls around, this prince is reduced to royal phyllodia.

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Sarracenia + Light Painting

Posted on September 21, 2010 | 2 comments

So, this past weekend, I finally was able to get a chance to go out and do some night photography around San Francisco with my good friend and bro, Ron. (Thanks for kickin’ it, bro!) We didn’t do much painting with lights, but we did get a chance to do a lot of great night time San Francisco city scape shots. Just a couple shots below…

There’s something so poetically metaphorical about photographing the beauty of light while everything else is darkness. While we were out shooting, I was reminded of a photo I took in 2009 of a grouping of my Sarracenias in the dark — with an added LED flashlight of course! Ah yes, Sarracenias are a bright spot for me, indeed.

09-19-10 [Sept 19, 2010 – Pacific Heights from Alta Vista Park, San Francisco]