Carnivores!
Big excitment! I finally got to see carnivorous plants growing in the wild!! It was the closest thing to a religious experience I'll ever have. I'm still high from the thrill of it! Pitcher Plant...
March 31, 2003
New Camera
Before I go any further about my trip to Florida I wanted to mention my new digital camera which takes lovely photos. I took this one just before we left for Florida. The whole...
March 15, 2003
Canada Blooms 2003
Thursday night I went to Canada Blooms. The theme for this year's show was "a Symphony of Garden's" and as a result all displays explored the theme of music. In years past there was...
March 04, 2003
Pitcher Plant/Faucaria/Seedy Saturday
Yesterday I bought a new pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). It was in horrible shape when I bought it having been sitting on a table without water for some unknown length of time. Being bog...
January 30, 2003
The Nature of Toys
Today at lunch I was watching an interesting episode of The Nature of Things. I've become a bit of a Nature of Things junky as they play old episodes twice daily on The Documentary Channel....
January 16, 2003
More on Nepenthes
My copy of "The Savage Garden" arrived today. I've spent a few hours this evening going over the Nepenthes chapter and looking at tons of photos online trying to identify my plant. A few...
January 15, 2003
Nepenthes Gets Droopy, Staghorn Fern Gets New Fronds
I think I'm going to just call the Nepenthes, Scylla. There were some great suggestions, but in the end Scylla works. So far this morning the sun has been too intense for the plant and...
January 08, 2003
Name My Nepenthes
Tropical Pitcher (Nepenthes) Thought I'd post a picture of the full tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes) so you can see how large the actual plant is. It's a bad photo but you can see that...
January 06, 2003
Tropical Pitcher (Nepenthes)
Tropical Pitcher (Nepenthes) Well I did it! I bought the tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes) I've been coveting. I was walking back from a visit to a local printer and decided to pop into my...
