{"id":1330,"date":"2011-05-22T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:45:18","slug":"the-gates-of-hell-and-abandoned-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/05\/the-gates-of-hell-and-abandoned-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gates of Hell and Abandoned Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yo, you still there? I’m still here.\u00a0 Chances are that if you are reading this, you’re still here too! Rad!!!<\/p>\n

For those of you who haven’t heard,\u00a0 May 21, 2011<\/strong> – was supposed to be “Judgement Day.”\u00a0 I won’t go into detail here on that subject. There’s plenty of info and opinion out there on the web. If you haven’t heard about it yet, feel free to look it up.<\/p>\n

I really hope y’all had a good day anyway – regardless of what happened… or in this case, what didn’t happen.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, it was quite a very nice day actually. Good weather, spent time with the fam, got some gardening in, got an oil change, worked around the house a bit, and to\u00a0 top it all off, the San Francisco Giants won! Tim Lincecum tossed a\u00a0FREAKKKKKIN amazing complete shut out game<\/em>! (AAANDDD…. most of you reading this probably don’t even care about that, but I just had to get that in there. The highlight of my day… GO GIANTS!)<\/p>\n

Uh, ok… so back to Sarracenia…<\/p>\n

I was inspired to share these two plants with you that I photographed the morning of this “Judgement Day.” And they pass judgement on their meals very nicely, yummm-ooo!<\/p>\n

First up: Sarracenia “Gates of Hell”.\u00a0 This cross was created by Brooks Garcia. The parentage – select clones of S. mitchelliana<\/a> x flava var. ornata<\/a>. I love the veins of this plant.\u00a0 It literally was the only “Hell” that I’ve seen today. Hella<\/em> nice plant! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Sarracenia
\n[Sarracenia “Gates of Hell”]<\/p>\n

And looking at the pitcher, you can almost see the flames jumping out of the fiery pit about\u00a0 to drag it’s meal into that eternal digestive damnation. *Yummy!*
\n\"Sarracenia
\n[Sarracenia “Gates of Hell”]<\/p>\n

The next plant is another one that I found fitting to be included in the Doomsday theme: Sarracenia “Abandoned Hope”. This is a cross that Peter D’Amato created in 1989 by crossing S. purpurea subsp. venosa var. burkii<\/a> with S. flava var. flava<\/a>.\u00a0 More information on this plant can be found at the International Carnivorous Plant Society<\/a>.\u00a0 According to Peter, The name was coined in 1994 and was taken from the sign at the entrance to Hell in Dante’s Inferno: “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.”
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\n[Sarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’]<\/p>\n

So bugs, be good and watch out, else your fate will end up in the depths of the Sarracenia abyss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yo, you still there? I’m still here.\u00a0 Chances are that if you are reading this, you’re still here too! Rad!!! For those of you who haven’t heard,\u00a0 May 21, 2011 – was supposed to be “Judgement Day.”\u00a0 I won’t go … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,327,328,330,114,130],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-abandoned-hope","tag-doomsday","tag-gates-of-hell","tag-hybrids","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-sarracenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}