The form of new pitchers rising are blade-like in appearance. These swords and spears cut and pierce their way into spring; they slice past the wreck of last year’s foliage. Soon they will inflate and morph into the cylindrical savage beauty that I am so enamored by.
Sarracenia oreophila
Sarracenia (‘Ladies in Waiting’ x ‘Judith Hindle’) x ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Sarracenia ‘Schnell’s Ghost’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
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Hey everyone, hope your having a good week so far! Here’s a few more photos of some plants that are awake and are standing out among their (slowly waking) siblings. Enjoy!
Sarracenia moorei, Yellow River x [((purpurea x flava) x flava) x minor]
A cross I did around 2008.
Sarracenia ‘Godzuki’ x ((rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii)
Cross I did around 2008.
Sarracenia readii x ‘Leah Wilkerson’
Cross by Wes Buckner
Sarracenia “Redman” F2 x rosea
A cross by Jerry Addington
An older pitcher that formed late last season, but it’s colored up quite nicely.
S. ‘Adrian Slack’ x ‘Judith Hindle’
A pretty nice clone of a cross done by Mike Wang
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Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Cross by Brooks Garcia, 2008
Photo taken 20 October 2012
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Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’
An old spring pitcher now fading into nothing more than a shadow of it’s former glory.
Off to sleep, now go…
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Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Cross by Brooks Garcia
Just a quick update on this fighter of a plant. After suffering in the low light conditions earlier this year, it’s bounced back and is actually looking rather decent. Here are two recent pitchers that came up and a third is on the way to open up shortly. (Special thanks to the S. leucophylla influence on the fall pitchers.) In seasons past, prolonged exposure to bright direct light would cause the green veins and slight pink flush that’s currently are visible fade to white; this produced a very beautiful and haunting contrast with the deep red throat splotch. There’s still a little bit of season left, so I am hoping that this plant will show off more white in the upper portion of the hood before finally going to sleep for winter dormancy.
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Howdy! Just a few shots from around the greenhouse… enjoy!
Nepenthes jamban
Pinguicula medusina
Dionaea muscipula
Drosera binata var. multifida
Sarracenia (leucophylla x oreophila) x ‘Adrian Slack’ – select clone
Sarracenia ((rubra x oreophila) x flava var. rugelii) x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Sarracenia “Pink Eye”
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Oh the festivities of this last move… again, it was FUN! It really is amazing how much difference lighting can make. Plants look happier! (Oh, I can almost hear them signing the Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! song…) Even in that last holding area, the plants have been reacting well. YES, there’s a ton of unsightly pitchers flopping all over the place as you may of noticed in the last post – but there’s a few new leaves springing up that signify something better is on the way! Late fall and winter is going to be fun trying to clean all this stuff up. That is a wonderful time of the year. That’s when my hand forged Katana blade comes out. Like this. And like this. The blade is great for trimming as well as security. Hell, might as well make this fun, right? Here’s some photos that Dahlia and I took below of some plants throwing up some new growth…
A forest of poopie colorless floppy pitchers. Bleh! This is a result of the horrid low light conditions at the old spot. On the plus side, I am hoping that this increased leaf area will promote additional photosynthesis to make up for lost time. I hope that the plants are taking in additional light and storing that in energy in their rhizomes for some phat pitchers next year! At this time next year, watch how different these plants will be looking!
Even in the fray of poopie floppy foliage, there’s some new growth! Freshly opened pitchers look promising! Seeing a sight like this is encouraging.
More new upright foliage in a sea of floppy.
Sarracenia leucophylla looking bright!
A new pitcher opens up on this antho free mystery hybrid with another on the way. This came from a cross of S. mitchelliana x ‘Leah Wilkerson’ done by Wes Buckner. If it really is an antho free mutation of this cross, that would be very “amazeeeeeballlllllzzzzzz!!!”. Read about this cross here. I am in love with the elegant shape of this violent vase of a plant.
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ by Brooks Garcia looking hawt with the new pitcher opening up! Lovely flush of pink, but that will go to white hawt once it gets going in the strong light.
New pitcher getting nice and juicy colored – Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava v. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’ – a cross I did in 2009, same year that California Carnivores did their cross. I am guessing the same parent plants were used.
Another angle of a new pitcher of Sarracenia [(rubra x oreophila) x flava v. rugelii] x ‘Adrian Slack’.
Sarracenia moorei “Orange Glow” x ‘Adrian Slack’ looking almost translucent. A cross I did back in 2009. I’m hoping that white on that hood really picks up in this light! Who knows. Let it grow, let it glow.
The top of this S. oreophila x ‘Adrian Slack’ clone getting frosty! Another cross I did back in 2009. Yeah, you can see I went a little nutzo with S. ‘Adrian Slack’ that year. Ironically, the next 2 years, the plant never flowered for me. Let’s hope for blooms next year!
In focus left, Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ (from Mike Wang. Unfortunately, I didn’t note which clone this was before taking the photo…) and to the right, Sarracenia mitchelliana, anthocyanin free. Some new pitchers that sprang up in the temporary holding location. Radness.
