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Stuffing Envelopes…

Posted on September 7, 2010 | 2 comments

Yeah. Tonight I was stuffing envelopes… Literally. I get enough paper-pushing at my desk during the day and then I get home and this is what I was just doing for the past 2 hours…

filing1[Paperwork! AHH!]

But I didn’t mind too much tonight cuz I was taking this…

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[Photo – Seed Pod – Sarracenia (rubra ssp. jonseii AF x minor var. okeefenokensis) x “Green Monster”]

Stuffing envelopes like this:

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[Stuffing Envelopes!]

And getting something like this:

filesystem1[The Sarracenia Files]

And that’s not even all of my crosses on the year so far – still have a few to go through that aren’t quite ready.  Oh well.  This is the “paperwork” I’d rather be doing though! Love it!!

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Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

Posted on September 6, 2010 | 10 comments

Another one of the crosses I did a couple years ago, finally putting up some defining pitchers.  Sarracenia “Starry Night” (link is a photo to the parent plant) is a very nicely colored Sarracenia excellens (leucophylla/minor hybrid), and Sarracenia ‘Hummer’s Hammerhead, looks like it has… well… a hammer head! 🙂

These are freshly opened pitchers, as the season progresses I hope that more color shows.  Two different seedling pitchers photographed below. The latter is starting to show some pinkish hues. Hmmm… what to call it? A “Starry Hammerhead?” LOL 😉

Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

[Photo: Sarracenia “Starry Night” x ‘Hummers Hammerhead’]

Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

[Photo: Sarracenia “Starry Night” x ‘Hummers Hammerhead’]

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Wide Thing

Posted on September 5, 2010 | 2 comments

A few years ago, my friend Karen Oudean gave me a Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” with a seed pod with a few seeds in it. Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” is Sarracenia rubra ssp. alabamensis x psittacina, and sorry… I don’t have a photo of Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” on hand, but you can always use Bob Ziemer’s Carnivorous Plant Photo Finder to view photos of what the parent plant looks like.

Anyway, I took the pod, extracted seed, put the seed through 3 weeks of damp cold stratification in the fridge.  After that, I threw em’ down on some planting media and watched em grow. About 2 years later, I came up with all sorts of different looking plants, however the one below really caught my attention ‘cuz that hood is friggin’ wide.

The thing with growing Sarracenia from seed, you never know what you’re going to get… and in this case, some flying saucer type UFO lookin’ hood came out. LOL 😉

Sarracenia "Doodle Bug" Open Pollinated[Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” – open pollinated seedling, 2 years old]

Sarracenia "Doodle Bug" Open Pollinated[Sarracenia “Doodle Bug” – open pollinated seedling, 2 years old]

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The Carnivorous Plantation

Posted on September 4, 2010 | 9 comments

Howdy everyone!  Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!  Now, how about a little weekend getaway, shall we?

All photos in this video were all taken by Bob Hanrahan at his Carnivorous Plantation in Alabama.  Now pull up a seat (the video is about 22 minutes long), grab some popcorn, and enjoy the movie! 😉


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Mr. Hanrahan — a very sincere and special thanks to you for sharing this; it is an honor and a delight to have “virtually visited” The Carnivorous Plantation by way of these photos. For now, I must vicariously live through them until I visit in person one day soon. Thank you Bob!

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Hipstamatic Mosaic Fun!

Posted on September 3, 2010 | 1 comment

Shootin’ around today with ye good ole iPhone and the Hipstamatic App.  I couldn’t really decide which I liked best so I just threw it all down as a mosaic… yay for random Sarracenia Hipstamatic mosaic fun goodness!  I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend! Yay for 3 day weekends too!


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Digestion

Posted on September 2, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, after the meal gets drawn in to the pitcher by the sights, smells, and savory serum spawned from the fierce foliage , it ends up looking kinda like this. Check out all those bugs swimming in a rich latte of enzymes that the plant uses to break em’ down for some nutritious absorption. Nice!

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[In the tube…]

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Yumm-o!

Posted on September 1, 2010 | 1 comment

A couple of days ago whilst I was meandering about the garden, I spotted some lunch makin’ its way to the plant. Needless to say, after a few moments of sippin’ that luscious plant liqueur – there was a slip n’ slide, a few faint buzzes and… well… lunch was then served. Yumm-o!

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dinner [Sarracenia “John Rizzi” x ‘Judith Hindle’ w/ lunch.]

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