Tag Archives: Sarracenia

Hello 2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 | Leave a comment

Hope everyone’s been having a good 2014 so far! Two weeks in there hasn’t been much plant action on this end – other than the massive cleaning and re-organizing efforts that are currently underway in The Asylum. Here’s a few snapshots of how my 2014 is going so far.

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January
The Asylum. The left half of the house has been trimmed. I’ve taken The Dome down on the right and I’m currently finishing up construction of 3 more water tables.

Looking fresh and clean!

The wreckage of dead foliage. I still have a lot of work ahead!

Burnt out heads of anthocyanin-free formosa.

Special thanks to Karen Oudean for sending over some brilliant specimens of Darlingtonia californica – Coos Co., OR

Drosera binata var. dichitoma awake and unfurling new traps.

Some Drosera regia cleaned and potted up.

What is this madness?! Is that… a BUD?!

Sarracenia “Legacy” – new pitcher forming.

Dormancy

Posted on December 14, 2013 | 2 comments

This season’s growth and vivid colors have come to an end. A few pitchers still hang on but even they are gradually fading into the congregation of crumbling foliage. Enjoy your rest, my pitchers. Until we meet again in the spring…

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Tagged 2013, dormancy, Sarracenia

Hummingbird

Posted on December 12, 2013 | 13 comments

A few days ago as I was working in the greenhouse, I had a visitor drop by! A hummingbird comes by every now and then and keeps me company. I’m glad that I actually had my camera on me to take a few frames of my esteemed guest. Here it is, sipping nectar from the last remaining Sarracenia leucophylla pitchers of the season.

Hummingbird

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Baby Greens

Posted on November 19, 2013 | 4 comments

Here’s a few up and coming babies of the anthocyanin free flavor. These seedlings were planted earlier this year and will be facing their first dormancy here pretty soon.

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Sarracenia "Green Monster" x alata AF
Sarracenia “Green Monster” x alata AF

Sarracenia wrigleyana AF

Sarracenia catesbaei AF

Sarracenia “Green Monster” x minor var. okefenokeensis – F2
These are a few of the seedlings that exhibit the AF mutation – other seedlings that came out of this batch are non AF. One of the non AF pitchers decided to photobomb this shot and you can see it on the left. It has some red coloration. You can read more about the roots of this particular collaboration breeding project between Jerry Addington, Mike Wang and myself (as well as see the pod these plants came from) in this blog post. This year I crossed 2 different clones from the original Sarracenia “Green Monster” x minor var. okefenokeensis seedlings and excited to see how those grow out in the coming years.

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Tagged alata, anthocyanin free, Catesbaei, Green monster, minor, okefenokeensis, Sarracenia, Wrigleyana

Sarracenia “Legacy”

Posted on November 17, 2013 | 7 comments

Sarracenia "Legacy" Sarracenia “Legacy” – Autumn pitcher
A select Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’ cross by Brooks Garcia

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Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 11

Posted on November 14, 2013 | 7 comments

It’s fun watching these S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ hybrids mature. Some of the crosses have that angular peristome that have carried over from S. ‘Reptilian Rose’, while others don’t. Here’s one cross that was done by Dr. Travis H. Wyman between S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ and (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla). To keep track of them, I numbered the plants out of each cross. The one below is number 11. It kinda reminds me of a stop sign or octagon when viewed from the top.

Sarracenia 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) clone 11 Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 11
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman

Sarracenia 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) clone 11
Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla) – Clone 11
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman