flowers

We let a few of our vft's flower this year to try are hand at crosding the different types together to sow the seed. I also collected a bunch of pollen samples from those types to aide in doing these crosses and i tickled and tickled till i tickled myself darn near crazy! Now that the flowers...

Quite surprised that this tillie bloomed for me. Don't know what triggered blooming and only one branch/piece did so. One of the more attractive tillie flowers, IMO. Imagine in the wild, they would attract hummers.

Hi everyone as anyone can assume i'm pretty new here but im pretty old in the plant world hahaha! The seeds i am offering are N. Lingulata and N. Reinwardtiana (a bunch if mixed color clones) they havent been sitting long and i would like to try to trade them with a few people before their...

There have been plenty of threads about flowering Nepenthes recently, so what's one more? I have pollen stored currently of N. x mixta, 'Miranda', and (inermis x singalana) x mira available, the last one sending up another flower stalk as well. I have also begun collecting pollen of 'Rebecca...

I have a female N.singalana in bloom and need some pollen for her. I would prefer pollen from N.singalana but, I know this is a long shot. Will entertain all reasonable offers. Standard 50/50 split on all seeds. There are enough flowers to do several crosses if needed. Thanks !

Dactylorhiza in habitat at Site 5 on June 16th 2015 Part 1 of two. The orchids are a little later this year, the inflorescences of the darker ones are more advanced whilst the paler ones are only just opening their lower flowers.

I have I think about 3 different types of moss growing in some of my pots. If you know any of them could you tell me what they are called? I hope you can kind of tell what they look like here. Here are the spore pods I think (only the pear shaped ones the others I beliece are some utricularia...

Any Hoya lovers here? I have a few species doing well for me, and would like to share with anyone interested. Shipping is on me. Most Hoyas are grown for their flowers, but several (like h.curtisii and h. Carnosa 'compacta') also have interesting foliage. See photos in links below for examples...

My friend has had a nepenthes for years that's simply labeled "Red". It's clearly a maxima hybrid, but he doesn't know anything about its origins. Maxima x sanguinea wouldn't surprise me, but it would only be a guess. Both the leaves and pitchers are quite red and the plant is extremely...

These are all the varieties that I have seen or researched, this is a fully up to date list, and I hope many of you find it helpful. Nearly all varieties are unofficial, some not well described, and others hardly described at all. So far 'Albino' is the only variety with an official status...

Mostly I don't bother with flower pictures because it is a pain getting the pots out of the crowded tray to get good angles. These are outdoors so much more room. It's also very difficult to render the colors true or catch the subtle veining or other variations. And many of the flowers look so...

In spite of my difficulties growing Pings, I can grow orchids really well. First, a picture of a Laelia angereri x L. katsukiana: This is a primary hybrid of two rock laelias from Brazil. They can grow well outside in Arizona, as long as they are given some shade in the afternoon, and a...

In a never-ending quest to make more room in my GH for my CP collection, I'm starting to pare down extras and less desirable (to me, at least) non-CP: 1. Gasteria fuscopunctata - a large plant with lots of babies. Originally from the University of South Florida Botanical Garden in Tampa...

I noticed last night that my Catopsis berteroniana has suddenly gotten quite "skinny." I see the plant every day so it was a surprise. I don't see signs of an inflorescence forming, and I've read that the plant only makes buds when it flowers, so I'm not sure what is happening. Does anyone know...

Okay, I try, I really do, to keep my plants labeled. But somehow in moving some plants to the new bog last year I must have lost one. This little guy, not many pitchers and only one flower is among the rubra collection. The sarrs I know are there are jonesii, jonesii f. heterophylla...

In this case the Orchid needs to be rescued FROM my care. About a year ago I bought a couple Orchids at Trader Joe's. One I've left alone, and is doing fine. The other I decided to divide up, unfortunately I didn't really have enough spots with sufficient sunlight to place the divisions, so...

Hi everyone. I've recently taken to stopping and snapping a picture of any wildflowers as I'm driving about, and this morning the wife and I took a hike around our little state park and took quite a few photos. We've had a pretty wet and mild spring so the flowers are really popping up right...

Hi, all! So... talk about a lesson learned the hard way. My two-year-old daughter thought it would be oh so hilarious if she yanked out the ID tags on 8 of the 13 species of pygmy sundew whose gemmae I acquired for the first time this past fall. In short, I have no idea which sundews are which...

Hi, all! So... talk about a lesson learned the hard way. My two-year-old daughter thought it would be oh so hilarious if she yanked out the ID tags on 8 of the 13 species of pygmy sundew whose gemmae I acquired for the first time this past fall. In short, I have no idea which sundews and which...

In January, my Utricularia chrysantha began to flower. However, since the container I was growing them in was too short, the flowers hit the lid and began growing sideways without flowering. In March, I transplanted them to a much taller container and the stalks began to grow upright. They still...