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It was sunny today so I figured I should take some of the plants out for photos. N. maxima 'Wavy Leaf': The horizontal pitcher at 6:00 was one of the originals that came with the plant when I got it 5 months ago, as was the now-dead one at 3:00. Quite long-lived pitchers. N. glabrata: This...

OK here's Fred with another wort. I have a couple of quarter trays with this fern in and can see immediately that it is super easy to identify in the wild. That's once you've knelt down on mud and decided that the mass of green growth isn't grass or reed and your high power loupe hasn't steamed...

I've been wanting one of these for a while now, Hopefully I can keep it alive. I mixed up soil according to the instructions in The Savage Garden of one part each peat, sand, perlite, pumice, and lava rock and topped the pot with more lava rock. Any advice would be appreciated!

I purchased this plant almost exactly a month ago and have yet to successfully acclimate my plant to its new environment. The plant arrived in great condition, but has slowly declined since. At first it was kept indoors in a south facing window and watered from the top (6-8 hours of direct...

Fungus gnats help with feeding my carnivorous plants, but their larvae have become a problem in one bowl. Can carnivorous plants handle cinnamon in their soil? I have read that it helps control fungus gnats when added to the soil surface. Yes, I have read about various chemical, bacterial, and...

Has anyone tried growing a Bletilla in zone 5a or in a zone close to that? Zone 5a is -20 F to -15 F. I'm tempted to try growing Bletilla striata and plant it in a flower bed. I see there are some Bletilla sellers that advertise their plants are zone 5. Others say zone 6 or 7- might be natural...

I'm going to be moving my Grass Pink and Egret Flower to a bog garden within the next week, and I can't help but notice that they seem to have been put a bit close to the surface.(I know for sure the grass pink was.) Grass pink. The first leaves look to be forming on top of the spike. Egret...

I took the stolons of some graminifolia that was being grown as an affixed aquatic (I guess technically, although it was really only affixed to itself) and potted them to be grown terrestrially. I had some success but would change a few variables and wanted to share my experiences...

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...

Today I noticed that my Darlingtonia appears to be wilting. The mature pitchers as well as the developing ones appear to be drying up. The plant looked fine just a few days ago. It has been overcast the last few days and it rained a few days ago, so I haven't watered the plant in a few days...

I had to pull down my three fish tanks for health reasons only. This was my first attempt at Aquascaping the 5ft tank. I called it placidity it was full of Anubias and Crypts. This is it now my second Terrascape. This is a heavily planted 45lt Bay Window tank. It now looks like this my...

Hi everyone. The last couple of days i've been studying (I'm currently finishing my Biology career) and I've realized I'm using a non renewable resource to cultivate plants and i'm helping to destroy the habitat for the same plants i'm cultivating. What the hell? I mean, it's terrible. But I...

So my terrarium and outdoor pots look kind of bland, and I've always found orchids interesting. I noticed that they seem to have similar nutrient and soil requirements to CPs, so I was thinking of growing a few with CPs. I was thinking of a crane orchid for venus flytraps and sarracenia, and...

Last year I decided to transfer many of my Arisaema from pots to the garden. To facilitate drainage I took some wide tubs and cut the bottoms out, sank the bases a couple of inches in the garden soil and top filled, so giving some small raised beds. This is the first of the species to show and...

I was over at my mom's, partly to get a picture of a Begonia, and I broke a piece off that plant by accident. So I decided to gather a few things and make it interesting. Here's what I left with: 1) Kalanchoe 'Pink Butterflies' 2) Calceolaria mexicana seedling (annual, reseeds) 3) Begonia...

Hi everyone i'm pretty new to the forum. i used to have about 20 nepenthes but i went away and lost most of them now i only have 4. i have a n. Truncata, n. alata, n. miranda and a n. Maxima x Lowii. The have been going downhill lately especially my alata. I was wondering if anyone could give me...

Opening bid: $2 Up for bid is as much Lemon Bacopa as I can stuff into a USPS Priority Mail small box. This is a great acid wetland and pond plant. It can grow free-floating, as well as anchored. It does well completely submerged and with only its feet wet. It roots easily in water or wherever...

Recently I've been looking through some photo of people's carnivorous plants and wondered the following: would a mesh pond basket be better for nepenthes than a regular one because of the air circulation ? In my terrarium, I used the regular square pots that the plants came in and they do just...

Some people like to grow Cephalotus in aerated, well drained soil, containing all sorts of materials. So, I decided to go quite the opposite, planting in an un-drained container (Christmas pudding tub), in pure peat and flooded on a weekly basis. I have been growing it this way since Autumn. I...

I was never one to bag cephalotus after dividing. The have always grown well for me after all. I divided one of my plants and decided to bag a few and put a few out in the greenhouse. The bagged one has shown rapid growth. The greenhouse plant not so much. Same clone, same soil, same everything...