Sarracenia ‘Saurus’
The mighty and monstrous Sarracenia ‘Saurus’ – adjusting quite well to the PNW. Cross by Phil Faulisi. For more info, see the official cultivar description here.
Hello all you beautiful people! Yeahhh, I know — It seems like it has forever since I’ve posted anything here. Yeah, things have been pretty busy outside of the garden the past couple of months but rest assured I still make time to go down and recharge my soul in The Asylum. The plants are all still doing good, but it’s that weird in-between time for me now. Spring pitchers already are burning out (thanks to my early season start) and pitchers of the autumn-indulging plants are just starting to form. Anyway – here’s a quick and dirty photo-update-reel from the past few weeks.
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Sarracenia oreophila – for the most part the spring pitchers are gone. Still a pitcher here and there looking ok.
Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ – clone F x ‘Adrian Slack’ I had this one seriously cramped pot of of these seedlings and repotted those seedlings into these four trays. You can see the old foliage all floppy n’ crud but they’re all throwing up new pitchers. Should be a pretty interesting cross.
Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” x leucophylla “Mesa Exotics”
Cross by Phil Faulisi
Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ – Clone F
Sarracenia leucophylla “Helmut’s Delight”
Sarracenia lecuophylla ‘Bris’
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis – Ware Co., GA
Sarracenia flava var. autropurprea
Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora – lidless
Sarracenia flava var. ornata – lidless
Sarracenia flava
Sarracenia flava “Extreme Red Throat”
FREAKIN’… THANK YOU ERIC!! So not that long ago a really awesome surprise came in the mail from Eric Morrow. After a somewhat really bad week for me, this surprise was a huge pick-me-up. By the way – check out Eric’s Instagram feed for some Sarracenia-heavy updates: @sarraceniacrazy!
Sarracenia (‘Leah Wilkerson’ x oreophila) x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
In my clean up of plants this year, I was glad to have found this baby barely surviving. I salvaged what I could and glad it’s recovering nicely!
Sarracenia ‘Royal Ruby’
Sarracenia “Blood Moon” – new pitcher unfolding.
Cross by Brooks Garcia
Sarracenia ‘Black Widow’ coloring up.
Sarracenia lecuophylla “burgundy” x flava var. maxima
Cross by James Soe Nyun
DOUBLE HEADER! Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var.rubricorpora x leucophylla)
(Ehh… forgot to note which clone this was…)
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var.rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 4
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
Sarracenia alata – AF
Sarracenia minor – AF
Sarracenia flava AF – Shalotte – Brunswick Co., NC
Sarracenia flava AF – Telogia – Liberty Co., FL
Kinky lip on that pitcher for some reason, heh!
Sarracenia flava ‘Suspicion’
Sarracenia “Green Monster”
Sarracenia “Green Monster” – F2
This one is reflecting a lot of S. leucophylla color influence
Sarracenia moorei AF – parentage: Sarracenia leucophylla AF x flava ‘Suspcion’
Cross by Aidan Selwyn.
Sarracenia “Monster Cat” (“Cat” short for “catesbaei”)
Cross by Jerry Addington.
Sarracenia purpurea “Smurf”
Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black”
from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black” *(correction caught by Eric, tag mislabel!)
Sarracenia alata red/black x ‘Kilimanjaro’
from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sibling to the plant above.
Another angle of the above Sarracenia willisii x alata “red/black”
*(correction caught by Eric, tag mislabel!)
Sarracenia alata red/black x ‘Kilimanjaro’ from Eric Morrow, Cross by Michael Sprouse.
Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” x (rosea “Big Mama” x leucophylla “Purple Lips”)
Cross by Phil Faulisi
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness” x alata ‘Night’
A cross I did a few years ago. Had a few of these growing in one pot, and the pot self culled itself. I recently repotted the survivors (strongest of that bunch…) and they’re putting up some promising young pitchers.
Sarracenia (minor x willisii) x purpurea ssp. purpurea) x leucophylla
Another neat little seedling of a cross I did that is reacting well to the repotting from earlier this year.
Sarracenia flava “widemouth” x (leucophylla “red” x minor var. okefenokeensis)
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’
I repotted most of these plants into individual pots only this year. They seem to have liked that.
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sibling to the one above it. The whole litter has everything in between both of these forms and color schemes. Gotta love the diversity.
Sarracenia oreophila “veined” x ‘Adrian Slack.
S. ‘Legacy’ like!
Sarracenia (leucophylla “Purple Lips” x flava var. ornata) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia (oreophila x ‘Royal Ruby’) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Sarracenia ‘Legacy’
Here’s one of the more recent crosses I did – Sarracenia leucophylla “Hanrahan” x alata AF. I’m excited about this one because… well… it’s an AF recessive S. areolata and can’t wait to use it in future AF projects. And… it’s fuzzy!
Not a pitcher plant but… sheeyat, I’m loving how this Drosophyllum is doing.
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Tagged Adrian Slack, alata, Alucard, anthocyanin free, autorpurpurea, Big Mama, Black Widow, Blood Moon, Bris, Catesbaei, clone f, Drosophyllum, Extreme Red Throat, flava, Green monster, Hanrahan, Helmut's Delight, hurricane creek white, hybrid, Leagacy, Leah Wilkerson, leucophylla, lidless, Mesa Exotics, minor, Monster Cat, moorei, night, okefenokeensis, oreophila, ornata, Photo Dump, Prince of Darkness, purepurea, purple lips, Reptilian Rose, rosea, Royal Ruby, rubricorpora, Sarracenia, willisii
A recently opened pitcher of Sarracenia ‘Vintner’s Treasure’. The color will intensify and deepen to a very rich deep maroon/purple as the pitcher ages.
A Phil Faulisi creation – more information on this wonderful cultivar can be found on the ICPS website.
Here are a few various Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ siblings from a cross I did back in 2009. I am so loving the variations among these babies!
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2009 cross
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2009 cross
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2009 cross
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2009 cross
Sarracenia oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2009 cross
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Tagged 2009, Adrian Slack, Cross, hybrid, oreophila, Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia
I recently came across a pot of S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ seedlings while rummaging through seemingly endless pots of seedlings to repot – and this one seedling really caught my eye. The cross was done by Brooks Garcia in 2011 and I started to germinate the seeds in 2012. The seedling below is 2 years old and time will tell what it will be like a few years from now.
It’s the same parentage as the plant that I’m calling S. “Legacy” – however the S. “Legacy” cross was done by Brooks a little earlier (in 2008.) This other batch of S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ has some promising seedlings, but this one that I separated out looks to hold some nice potential. It’s throat marking marking and pale top remind me of S. “Legacy”, only this plant has a nice contrasting deep red/black border around the lid, nectar roll, and down the central midrib. It’s one plant I’ll be keeping my eye on. As always, great work, Brooks!
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2011 Cross by Brooks Garcia
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2011 Cross by Brooks Garcia
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ – 2011 Cross by Brooks Garcia
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Tagged 2011, Adrian Slack, Brooks Garcia, hybrid, Leah Wilkerson, Sarracenia
Hey everyone! Hope you’ve been well. The past couple of months have been quite eventful, but rest assured that things in The Asylum are still pretty busy! I’m working on re-potting seedlings that have been in community pots and I’m finding some fascinating things within those pots.
One of the recent discoveries was a pot of S. “Green Monster” x alata AF that I had almost forgotten about. You know, outta sight, outta mind… Well, it was pretty nice finding that stash. One of the seedlings from this cross are photographed below. It’s still pretty young but showing some potential…
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF
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I know it doesn’t look like much, but below is a new table I recently put together that I’m slowly filling up with seedlings. So far, it’s all antho free but it will be a mix of cool stuff. The seedlings look all scattered and messed up, but they’ll look a little better once they establish themselves and put up some new pitchers. I’m really anticipating some cool plants. At the moment, I’m actually building a 2nd table. Never ending Sarracenia expansion!
New seedling table slowly filling up!
Posted in Anthocyanin Free, Blog
Tagged alata, anthocyanin free, Green monster, hybrid, new table, project, Sarracenia
Nepenthes. Yes, they live!
A few months ago, we had a relatively nasty cold snap (hey, cold for us at least) that the Nepenthes didn’t appreciate very much. I think it got down to the mid 30’s or something. I had the Nepenthes growing out in the unheated greenhouse with no protection like this.
With lack of a better plan, I moved them to the corner of the greenhouse and just threw overwintering film on them. For the past few months, there they stayed. I didn’t pay much attention to them as they were kind of depressing to look at. Crispy brown all over the place. Not good. Dahlia or I would water them every now and then by lifting up the overwintering film and just aimlessly hosing everything down. I had my fingers crossed hoping I would get something that would survive. And survive they did!
I wanted to do a better job this year. If I left that monster dome up, the plants would of had better protection. But nooooo, I was ambitious and brought that house down in December (DECEMBER!) of all months. Geez. Hey, that dome took up 3 tables worth of space! I didn’t need anything that big. So my plan for this year was to provide them better shelter that didn’t take up a footprint of 20′ x 15′. That’s too much and I need that space for Sarracenia.
So, I picked up a sweet 6 x 8 greenhouse find on Craigslist and that would be the new Nepenthes house. (Thanks Steve!) This is a great size. It doesn’t take up a lot of room, and come winter I can insulate the small greenhouse with greenhouse bubble wrap, or something of that nature. This should keep it a little warmer and offer a little more protection from the cold. I had my eldest son Josiah help me put the greenhouse together. It reminded me of when I put my first greenhouse together with my grandfather when I was about Josiah’s age.
This last week I spent some time cleaning the Nepenthes up and moving them into their new home. The photo below is very depressing. I had thought this plant was a goner for sure! If you look closely, a few months under the overwinter film proved helpful. There’s a couple basal shoots in there!! Yeah!!
The Nepenthes took a beating from the cold a few months back…
I know, that’s just nasty up there. Fortunately after trimming all the dead crap off, I found signs of life! YEAH!
The Nepenthes lives! Yes. Yesss… YEAASS!!
I did have a lot of losses though and I’m still mourning those plants. As my friend Kinjie told me regarding these plants, “Hey, you gotta learn somehow!” Yes, true, but losing plants is a sucky way to learn! To the left is a Nepenthes densiflora x truncata. You can see some of the cold damage that this baby took. The center of the plant is still alive and there are new growpoints forming where the cold turned the main growpoint into mush. In any event, I’m so very glad that many of the plants survived. Some of the surprises that I found under that overwinter film provided some great comfort, hope, and solace.
Nepenthes cleaned up and just moved in!
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They have survived.
Nepenthes spectabilis x singalana
Nepenthes peltata – new foliage looking good.
Nepenthes spectabilis
Nepenthes boschiana x densiflora – new pitcher forming.
Nepenthes “Dormouse”
A very pleasant surprise – pitchers on Nepenthes jamban!
Nepenthes tiveyi – “Red Queen”
Nepenthes Poi Dog – Maxima Hybrid
Last year’s cuttings with new growth!
Nepenthes ventricosa x tiveyi – new pitcher just opening.
Tagged boschiana, cold snap, Cuttings, densiflora, Dormouse, greenhouse, hybrid, jamban, maxima, mini greenhouse, nepenthes, peltata, Pitcher Plant, Poi Dog, Red Queen, singalana, spectabilis, survived, tiveyi, truncata, ventricosa
