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!
Very nicely done! I was lucky enough to visit years ago, before the house was built and the plantings were far less mature (and spectacular). Nice to see it again in its current state. Thanks
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One of my favorite plants is a clone of S x. popei (S. flava x S. rubra wherryi) from the site, reported (by Bob) to be a natural hybrid from when S. flava was still extant in Alabama.
Thanks Jay! Good to hear from you! I am looking forward to going sometime soon! I hope to go sometime next year if I can get the time off work. I know that when I go, I may not want to leave!
I so want to go! Looks fabulous!
I have to admit my pitcher plants outside are not too thrilled with the cold summer we have been having… but the fly traps inside are very happy in my warm bathroom. I sacrifice a bug once a week, so maybe that helps, too!
Hey DGG! Thanks for stopping by the blog! Bug sacrifices are a necessary (and just plain awesome) part of any garden! LOL!
Amazing video!!
Thanks Giulio!
Beautiful place and years of hard work shows…….hope I can somehow see it before I’m too old n gray……..Thanks for sharing it with us……
John Hummer, naturalist
Overwhelmingly gorgeous and sublime. But, having seen my first sarracenia (oreophila) in the wild 48 years ago, also melancholy since I know how much has gone since then. Some whole chapters were probably lost before they were ever opened.
I hope — seriously — that at least a partial annotation list can be drawn up. E.g., was that an oreo x flava?
Are these shots all at the farm or in the field, too?
Do you have oreo, jonesii, alabam, gulfensis and other rubras elsewhere? Are they yet to come or, as I might fear, does the Deep South clime not agree with several of them?
I lost a lot of my slides and often I’d be totally broke after a field trip and never scrounge the money to develop the slides.
So, congratulations on this priceless contribution to our knowledge and spirit.
–rt
Randy,
Pleased that you enjoyed the little trip to the Carnivorous Plantation. All photos were taken on the property. The S. oreo’s have been there for well over 20 years. And yes, there are other rubra’s that were not shown. Plan on coming on down with me sometime. You only need to get to Atlanta where we live and we will stay at the shack on the property. There is a guest room on the lower level.
Bob Hanrahan