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A couple pictures
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Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
Who, the NOID hybrid? I intend to. I was thinking of doing a short line of Sarr hybrids, like the Bug group, but with another theme. Shhhh.... I'm not saying what the group theme will be, just yet, but it should be fun. I already passed out my first division of the first plant to be named.
Thanks, Thez!
Thanks, Thez!
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
bluemax
Lotsa blue
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
Moooooore pictures! OK, maybe not that many more, just a few.
I went to the potluck at "a place nearby", and had a blast! I made more rice stuffed Nepenthes, and I'd like to say they were a huge hit. Peter D'Amato had some, and really liked them. I didn't take any pictures of the dish, sorry. We then enjoyed a (blessedly short- it was ROASTING in the GH that day) talk about pollinating Pinguicula and growing Aldrovanda. The back-back area was opened up, and I got to tour the kiddie pools and Sarracenia forest, along with the private collection. These pictures are all of just the collection.
Peter showing off the cover of his new book:
Pollinating a Ping:
Even Paloma enjoyed the day:
Random pictures at the nursery:
Want!
How many of you have read "The Savage Garden"? Here's a celebrity!
More in the next post......
I went to the potluck at "a place nearby", and had a blast! I made more rice stuffed Nepenthes, and I'd like to say they were a huge hit. Peter D'Amato had some, and really liked them. I didn't take any pictures of the dish, sorry. We then enjoyed a (blessedly short- it was ROASTING in the GH that day) talk about pollinating Pinguicula and growing Aldrovanda. The back-back area was opened up, and I got to tour the kiddie pools and Sarracenia forest, along with the private collection. These pictures are all of just the collection.
Peter showing off the cover of his new book:
Pollinating a Ping:
Even Paloma enjoyed the day:
Random pictures at the nursery:
Want!
How many of you have read "The Savage Garden"? Here's a celebrity!
More in the next post......
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
One experiment on the fountain (I'm starting to call the vertical portion the "ladder")-- The Utricularia gramminifolia is taking off like a rocket. I even have a couple flower stalks coming up. I thought I'd add to the ladder, and I tied a Darlingtonia to it with a bit of LSF. The cobra hasn't slowed down one bit, and it rotating all the soft new leaves toward the wall. Funny!
A couple around-the-yard pictures. Now that I have finally locked the raccoons out of the pondarium I was able to put the Aldrovanda in it. And not a moment too soon: The waterwheels were down to one strand and one worry looking end piece. Now it's about five strands, each with new side-shoots popping nearly daily. Whew! And the traps are HUGE
Growing outside in the bog, Utricularia dichotoma:
Lookit what Dory bought me!
Tht-tht-tht-tht-- that's all folks!
A couple around-the-yard pictures. Now that I have finally locked the raccoons out of the pondarium I was able to put the Aldrovanda in it. And not a moment too soon: The waterwheels were down to one strand and one worry looking end piece. Now it's about five strands, each with new side-shoots popping nearly daily. Whew! And the traps are HUGE
Growing outside in the bog, Utricularia dichotoma:
Lookit what Dory bought me!
Tht-tht-tht-tht-- that's all folks!
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
I COULD be mean and make you wait. I did deliberately use that picture, instead of the full front one. It's Sarracenia "Deep Throat" with a woman's painted-nailed fingers dropping in a roach. Specifically, that's Lau Hodges' hand, from the SF Conservatory, holding one of the infamous palmetto bugs. Look on the table in the next picture, it is there.
Rice stuffed nepenthes? Sounds great! Do you have a recipe?
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
15-20 soft, new Nepenthes pitchers, vigorously rinsed*
2 cups sushi rice
1 can coconut milk, shaken until your eyeballs rattle**
2 tablespoons sugar
Soak the rice in water overnight. Re-triple-rinse pitchers, cut off lids and tendrils. Do NOT cut into the pitcher chamber. Stack upside down to drain.
Using a narrow spoon, gently fill each pitcher half full of rice-- use the end of the spoon or a chopstick to GENTLY tamp down the rice. Punctures are bad news. Put water in the steamer and put the bottom in. Stack the pitchers upright in the steamer. Use bunched foil to fill the empty space to keep the pitchers upright. In a bowl, mix the sugar into the coconut milk. Use a turkey baster to fill the pitchers the rest of the way with the coconut milk. Steam for one hour, with the timer set for fifteen minute increments to check the fluid level in the pitchers and top off the water in the bottom of the steamer (important!). Top off any pitchers that need it. AFter the hour, remove the steamer lid, shut off the stove, and allow to rest until you can handle them. Handle with care- they're pretty soft.
*Use softer species of Nepenthes. The woodier species aren't as enjoyably edible. It is better to use newly opened pitchers because they are softer, and have had less time to acquire that distinct insect aftertaste.
** Use a can opener to open the coconut milk. There will be "cream" on the top, and you miss it if you use a churchkey opener.
Optional chicken mole:
1 lb dark meat chicken, cut int 2" pieces.
1/2 c soy sauce
1/2 c vinegar
2 heaping tbs brown sugar
Combine all ingredients when you start the rice soaking the night before. When the rice gets going, start cooking the chicken. If you want more sauce, bake the chicken in a lidded dish. If you want less, thicker sauce, put it in a sauce pan and cook that way. It's all up to you!
2 cups sushi rice
1 can coconut milk, shaken until your eyeballs rattle**
2 tablespoons sugar
Soak the rice in water overnight. Re-triple-rinse pitchers, cut off lids and tendrils. Do NOT cut into the pitcher chamber. Stack upside down to drain.
Using a narrow spoon, gently fill each pitcher half full of rice-- use the end of the spoon or a chopstick to GENTLY tamp down the rice. Punctures are bad news. Put water in the steamer and put the bottom in. Stack the pitchers upright in the steamer. Use bunched foil to fill the empty space to keep the pitchers upright. In a bowl, mix the sugar into the coconut milk. Use a turkey baster to fill the pitchers the rest of the way with the coconut milk. Steam for one hour, with the timer set for fifteen minute increments to check the fluid level in the pitchers and top off the water in the bottom of the steamer (important!). Top off any pitchers that need it. AFter the hour, remove the steamer lid, shut off the stove, and allow to rest until you can handle them. Handle with care- they're pretty soft.
*Use softer species of Nepenthes. The woodier species aren't as enjoyably edible. It is better to use newly opened pitchers because they are softer, and have had less time to acquire that distinct insect aftertaste.
** Use a can opener to open the coconut milk. There will be "cream" on the top, and you miss it if you use a churchkey opener.
Optional chicken mole:
1 lb dark meat chicken, cut int 2" pieces.
1/2 c soy sauce
1/2 c vinegar
2 heaping tbs brown sugar
Combine all ingredients when you start the rice soaking the night before. When the rice gets going, start cooking the chicken. If you want more sauce, bake the chicken in a lidded dish. If you want less, thicker sauce, put it in a sauce pan and cook that way. It's all up to you!
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Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
Perfectly edible. In some parts they are a treasured treat. As long as you use pitchers that haven't caught anything (more than a gnat), you'll be fine.
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
Lil Stinkpot
Lucky Greenhorn
Here are a few more. These were taken on our way up to the potluck.
The ever-present fog rolling through the Golden Gate Bridge:
There is always a LOT of trade in and out of the Bay. Here is a container ship going out, first past Alcatraz, then along the San Fransisco skyline. Behind Alcatraz, you can see Yerba Buena Island, connected to the artificial and flat Treasure Island, joined to the mainland by two spans of the Bay Bridge.
And lastly, a random shot of the guns on the USS Iowa during her brief refurbishing, before being towed to ThezYo's home port in SoCal.
The ever-present fog rolling through the Golden Gate Bridge:
There is always a LOT of trade in and out of the Bay. Here is a container ship going out, first past Alcatraz, then along the San Fransisco skyline. Behind Alcatraz, you can see Yerba Buena Island, connected to the artificial and flat Treasure Island, joined to the mainland by two spans of the Bay Bridge.
And lastly, a random shot of the guns on the USS Iowa during her brief refurbishing, before being towed to ThezYo's home port in SoCal.
