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Flower Watch 2012

  • #101
Thanks all of you for the kind words. If anyone wants to stop by for the 19th hole, just let me know. :)

That collection of yours keeps growing Brie...nice!

Can't wait to see that flava bust out of that pot Kris.
 
  • #102
S. 'Dixie Lace'
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S. 'John's Autumnal Splendor'
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S. leucophylla 'Hurricane Creek White'
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S. purpurea ssp venosa
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  • #103
Old faithful Darlingtonia californica is putting up another flower this year. Only one again, still sulking from being divided last year.
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However I did get an enormous amount of seed from the one flower, which ended up in the ICPS seedbank although I did do a small give-away.
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  • #104
Open for business but not quite ready for primetime
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The naughty bits if you've never seen them. Doesn't look like the stigma are receptive yet.
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And the pollinator is supposed to fit through this opening. Too small for the European honeybee and the petals are quite stiff with a waxy, slippery surface.
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S. minor × psittacina
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  • #105
Beautiful flower on that DC NaN!
 
  • #106
That is a crazy flower! I have never seen one before. Thanks for the multiple views NaN!
 
  • #107
That is a crazy flower! I have never seen one before. Thanks for the multiple views NaN!

^Agreed!

S. flava var ornata:
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S. 'Judith Hindle'
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S. purpurea ssp. venosa var. montana is such a slow poke! I have flava ornata pollen in the fridge ready to pounce!
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  • #108
You all have such beautiful flowers opening! I only have one, a Sarracenia purpurea.

This is what it looked like a month ago:
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Now:
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  • #109
its been five weeks since my three sarracenia flowers first appeared... are they not going to bloom?

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Old faithful Darlingtonia californica is putting up another flower this year. Only one again, still sulking from being divided last year.
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ooh i've never seen a darlingtonia flower! very pretty.
 
  • #110
The petals don't open, just the sepals. Compare the pictures above. The one petal is sticking out because I had pulled it open to take photos of the inside.

How long are the stalks? Eight to sixteen inches is what I get before the sepals open. One year the flowers aborted because of mealybugs but the flowers never even got past the bud stage at the growing point.
 
  • #111
Sarracenia Leucophylla Flower Photoshoot!

Just used colored construction paper as a background.

Pictures taken with Nikon D40 (Tamron 70-300mm Lens)

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And just the night as a background :)

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Thanks for looking,

Will
 
  • #112
The stragglers are finally coming along. Only a few plants left.

S. purpurea ssp. venosa var. montana:
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S. x excellens (leucophylla 'red' x minor var okefenokeensis). This one is usually the last one to flower:
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Some more S. 'Judith Hindle' flowers:
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  • #113
S. x"red bug"
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S. purpurea
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  • #114
My first flower

Here's my first sarr bloom: S. oreophila.

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My son likes to help me "check a plans" (check the plants)

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  • #115
Finally.... I can participate!

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Leah Wilkerson
 
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  • #116
Don't count your chickens before they hatch...

But maybe, just maybe...

Darlingtonia californica
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We'll see in July/August
 
  • #117
Darlingtonia seed capsule doing the tulip thing:
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