{"id":5840,"date":"2013-10-27T23:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T06:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2020-03-14T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T03:30:53","slug":"darlingtonia-trip-2013-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2013\/10\/darlingtonia-trip-2013-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlingtonia Trip 2013: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DarlingtoniaBack on 11 October 2013, I had the privilege of being able to check out some Darlingtonia growing in situ with fellow carnie-bro, Mike Wang. (By the way – if you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to stop by the Sarracenia forum and take a look\u00a0Mike’s amazing photos in his Darlingtonia posts<\/a>!)\u00a0As I mentioned in my last post<\/a>, this would be the first time I ever saw carnivorous plants growing in their natural habitat. Hey, better late than never right? It was a phenomenal experience. Now I have an even deeper<\/em> appreciation for these magnificent plants.\u00a0I can’t say enough about what I saw and experienced during this trip. The overstimulation of seeing these majestic plants growing at all the various sites was pure botanical overload. And yes, I savored every second of it. We only had a few short hours of sunlight to explore by on our first day up there. By the time we arrived it was already late afternoon. We tried to see as much as we could and make the most of the fading light. It turned out to be great timing – the lighting at this time of day hit the plants in such a way to give them an otherworldly glow.\u00a0Here’s a video and a few photos capturing moments from day one of this fantastic Darlingtonia excursion. Stay tuned – video and photos from day 2 to follow!<\/span><\/p>\n