{"id":6751,"date":"2014-12-27T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2014-12-27T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T09:44:08","slug":"winter-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2014\/12\/winter-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter greetings all! I hope this finds you all well and that this winter season has been good to you and the plants.\u00a0Now that it is winter and the plants are asleep, activity in\u00a0The Asylum is ramping up. This winter season is a busy one indeed. I&#8217;ve been doing some cleaning, trimming, moving plants about, and even some sorting of seeds (Yeeessss, I know &#8211; many of you asked about seeds. And divisions. So stay tuned for that update&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a small selection of photos from around the garden. First shot below is a doozy. What a complete mess this is. Yeah, I gots my trimming work cut out for me. Most plants have long since put away the glory of the season past. They are once again clothed in the sleep of crispy crunchy pitchers. Soon enough, this place will be bursting full of life again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8571\/15495165384_8a11110f3b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Time for clean up\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Dormancy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And of course, my trusted garden helper &#8211; my katana, puts some work in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/115459011\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Quick clip: Slicing through Sarracenia.<br \/>\nSorry for the quality. Filmed in slow motion (120 FPS) on the mobile device<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7515\/16117494095_08c285aba0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia oreophila\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Sarracenia oreophila section &#8211; all squared away.<\/em><\/span><a title=\"Sarracenia oreophila by Rob Co, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rco911\/16117494095\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7537\/15497784463_f4ae641cf7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Dionea clean up\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Dionaea, Pinguicula, and Drosera (Drosera out of shot in background) cleaned and organized.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7492\/16091706516_75d4e59c19_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia oreophila\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><em>Dormancy: Sarracenia oreophila<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7551\/15931430109_92ec8cfd72_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia alata - Maroon Throat\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><em>Sarracenia alata &#8211; maroon throat<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <em>A few pitchers still hanging on.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7489\/16117495655_6ec81ff90a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia leucophylla x &quot;Eva&quot;\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Seedling: Sarracenia leucophylla x &#8220;Eva&#8221; \u00a0pitcher still vibrant.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And while the Sarracenias sleep, the Nepenthes crew bask\u00a0in these cooler temperatures. Watching the Nepenthes and tropicals grow during the winter\u00a0helps break up the monotony of all the lifeless pitchers. I like them &#8216;cuz you know, I always have to be growing&#8230; *something.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7475\/15930078908_0817c351fb_c.jpg\" alt=\"Nepenthes ventricosa x tiveyi\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Nepenthes ventricosa x tiveyi<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8674\/16116761312_69cb7aeee7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Nepenthes thorelii x aristolochioides\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Nepenthes thorelii x aristolochioides<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8645\/15930204600_87d032591d_c.jpg\" alt=\"Nepenthes (eymae x (stenophylla x lowii)) x trusmadiensis\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Nepenthes (eymae x (stenophylla x lowii)) x trusmadiensis<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7568\/15930138028_1a3b7d1ce6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Grow Tank\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>And finally &#8211; back home is the grow tank. I turned an unused 50 gallon tank into a refuge for some Heliamphora, Cephalotus, Nepenthes, a Pinguicula and Drosera. There&#8217;s a variegated vanilla orchid growing in the corner and a mounted staghorn fern (Platycerium coronatum) that was not taking too well to the cooler temps in the greenhouse. Be looking for updates from the grow tank in the future.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter greetings all! I hope this finds you all well and that this winter season has been good to you and the plants.\u00a0Now that it is winter and the plants are asleep, activity in\u00a0The Asylum is ramping up. This winter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2014\/12\/winter-greetings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1,826,620,695,268],"tags":[523,779,515,361,40,42,1275,862,1276,696,1361,215,82,1180,101,1274,655,1272,130,1025,1179,1273,778,823,897,1181,1271,822,187],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cephaltous","category-heliamphora","category-nepenthes-2","category-video","tag-alata","tag-aristolochioides","tag-cephalotus","tag-dionaea","tag-dormancy","tag-drosera","tag-eva","tag-eymae","tag-grow-tank","tag-hamata","tag-heliamphora","tag-katana","tag-leucophylla","tag-lowii","tag-nepenthes","tag-ore","tag-pinguicula","tag-red-hairy","tag-sarracenia","tag-singalana","tag-stenophylla","tag-sword","tag-thorelii","tag-tiveyi","tag-trim","tag-trusmadiensis","tag-tujuh","tag-ventricosa","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}