Our Cephalotus plant is growing new leaves and catching the sun on our kitchen windowsill. I love the bright green of the leaves with sun shining through.
Nearly time for a new pot again. #SavageGarden#InsectivorousPlants#Cephalotus
One of my Sarracenias flowered this year for the first time. The flower has been around for a while but photos of it haven't really turned out well so far until this one.
The carnivorous plants are starting to grow again after their winter dormancy.
These ones are indoor windowsill ones grown from seed on sphagnum moss. #CarnivorousPlants#Drosera#Sarracenia#SavageGarden
Repotting day for the Venus Flytraps planted from seed in Fall 2022. They seem about halfway out of dormancy. The leaves are starting to stand up and there is new growth, but most of the traps are not fully active yet. They were pretty easy to work with this time. Most of them went into a larger pot, but I put some in smaller pots to give to friends this spring. The last pic is right when they were removed from the old pot.
“And your new hobby will shove you into a strange world. There’s something dark in the pits of those pitchers, and it’s not the rotting bugs. If you fall in, you may land in an acidic soup of crime, addiction, and existential angst.”
“Mat Orchard thought he could handle Nepenthes. They nearly ate him alive.”
(Don’t worry about me, I only grow common & easy types)
Brought these outside for the first time this year to get some sun and fresh air. They started coming out of dormancy a few weeks ago (I reset the wintering bulb light timers every few weeks to follow sunrise/sunset). They'll be going in and out of the house until they fully acclimate to outside again.
I’m wondering whether this butterwort (Pinguicula) is making a bud. Haven’t had any flowers on butterworts yet. Very excited.
Not sure which species. It had pink leaves but the new ones came in green. The newer new ones are showing some pink. Probably to do with letting it sit uncovered sometimes (direct light)?
I have a dormancy question. This is the first one for my one year old Venus Flytraps from seed. I seeded them way to close together (I know better now). I know the best time for separating them out is during the dormancy period, though when is best within that? Is it now when they are dormant for about a month or so with some green on them still or later closer to spring. If the latter do I just move the roots and rhizomes?
A day of discovering delicious food and exploring vibrant plant nurseries @ Sungai Buloh.
This area, once home to the second-largest leprosy settlement called the Valley of Hope, now thrives with beautiful nurseries which were once managed by leprosy patients, some of whom are still tending to the greenery.
Everybody knows how tree shrews poop in Nepenthes pitchers on Mount Kinabalu but few ppl seem to be talking about how geckoes are super attracted to and addicted to Nepenthes nectar.
(It’s a problem for my plants because the geckos tend to poop in the soil or the water tray, which makes the soil overly fertile. I have a spray bottle ready nearby for whenever I see them, which is literally whenever I’m not looking at the plants.)
Nepenthes gracilis “squat” is such an underrated lowland pitcher plant that for some reason, I don’t see mentioned very often outside of the Southeast Asian cp hobbyist community. It’s tiny & compact (like, FAR more compact than either the normal forms of gracilis and ampullaria), it’s easy to grow, its leaves are tiny compared to its pitchers. #CarnivorousPlants#SavageGarden
That said, Nepenthes campanulata x ventricosa has become really affordable & widely available nowadays (at least here in Malaysia) and it has all the strengths of N. gracilis “squat”. (It does grow large eventually but with a bit of pruning, it can stay as a miniature forever) #SavageGarden#CarnivorousPlants