Flower Watch 2012

[brinkerh420]

Two good pictures of my Sarracenia Purpurea (Can anyone help with the SSP.?) With the help of a little color enhance

 

[Crissytal]

A dear friend of mine took these but is too modest to post them, I hope they dont mind if I do... I think they are stunning.

Maybe they will chime in and take due credit

Whoops, I guess I waited too long on posting those. Av beat me to it!

 

[Fred P]

S. "Brimstone" flowers. I love how the colors look similar to the pitchers.

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A nice group of S. 'Tarnok' flowers.

 

[F R e N c H 3 z]

I was wondering where you'd been Fred Fantastic growing as always

 

[Fred P]

I was wondering where you'd been Fred Fantastic growing as always

Thanks Yann and I'm still around; just been busy growing tons of Sarrs.

Some patio flowers. The flava are spent but the leuco hybrids are still going strong.

 

[joossa]

Wow. Fred, those S. "Brimstone" flowers sure are something! Amazing!

 

[Brokken]

My gawd, Fred you have a beautiful home in addition to beautiful sarras!

 

[F R e N c H 3 z]

My gawd, Fred you have a beautiful home in addition to beautiful sarras!

+1

I was thinking maybe Fred wouldn't mind if I went ahead and camped out around the 9th hole. I hear it's only a par 3, making it a short walk to the backdoor hehehe

 

[Av8tor1]

My gawd, Fred you have a beautiful home in addition to beautiful sarras!

+1... Wow, nice!

 

[Brie]

Fred that set up is amazing! Gorgeous!

I went outside and wrote a list of the plants that have flowers coming up. I'm very excited for this year, going to be doing A LOT of pollinating.. Im anxiously awaiting all of these guys opening up.. So far they're either just emerging, or maybe halfway up.. The past few days are the first days of the year up here to break 70 degrees, so they're all taking their sweet time.. blah.

So far the flowers I have emerging are:

Adrian Slack
Leah Wilkerson
Schnells Ghost
Judith Hindle
Ruffled Sparkler
Red Flame
Doreen's Colossus
Adrian Slack Imposter
Appalachian Spring
Hank
Dana's Delight
June Bug
lueco Titan
lueco Burgundy
lueco Snowflake
lueco x umlauftiana
Golden Red Jubilee x purp purp
moorei
catesbaei
rubricorpora "best clone"
rubricorpora "clone H"
rubra alabamensis
flava
purp montana

 

[tje25]

Holy cow Brie!!! Thats quite a list!!

 

[SirKristoff]

My first opened bloom, one of my Darlingtonia from seed

 

[Brie]

Went outside and snapped some quick photos of all of the flowers that are coming up...

rubricorpora - Clone H

rubricorpora - Best Clone

catesbaei bud playing peekaboo

alabamensis, 2 buds

Doreen's Colossus, 2 buds

Adrian Slack, taking off like a rocket. Tallest new growth of all my sarrs + 1 flower bud

flava, one of my first sarrs. Bought as a single division exactly 1 year ago next weekend. Flava certainly is an insane grower.

Judith Hindle, 2 buds. Also was purchased almost exactly a year ago for comparison lol

purp purp, still waiting on any sign of flowers from this guy. Was purchased with the previous two, and flowered last year but nothing yet.

One of the sarr tables

Snowflake

Adrian Slack Imposter

Ruffled Sparkler

Red Flame

Titan

Appalachian Spring

As you can see, this was purchased as a purp venosa montana.. Personally I think its just regular venosa...

Hank

Golden Red Jubilee x purp purp

Schnell's Ghost

Lueco Burgundy

Bloodmoon showing new growth, anxiously awaiting a flower. arrggg

June Bug, putting up all kinds of contorted growth. WTF plant?

Dana's Delight

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Also, big bog pot showing Doreen's Colossus, Leah Wilkerson, Schnell's Ghost, a little Wilkerson's White Knight and Adrian Slack.. Didnt take an individual photo of the Leah Wilkerson flower bud apparently.

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Oops, and I forgot the darlingtonia.. its about ready to pop.

 

[SirKristoff]

Brie - how funny, i was just doing the same thing lol.... So here we go with mine,

'Leah Wilkerson'

oreophila green x leucophylla white

oreophila x leucophylla

'Doreens Colossus'

flava var flava from '05 seeds

'Golden Red Jubilee x rubra alabamensis

"Ares"

purpurea subsp. venosa

flava var. rugelii from Twin City, GA.

couple of flava var. rugelii from Twin City, GA.

flava

flava var. ornata

xExcellens

flava var. maxima #26

flava "Red Marble"

'Doodle Bug'

leucophylla Chipola

flava Giant

Darlingtonia californica from seed

Darlingtonia californica HT001 Gasquet

S. purpurea subsp. purpurea f. heterophylla

S. purpurea subsp. venosa

xCatesbaei from Sunata, FL... (wondering if Karen misread this from Sumatra)

purpurea subsp. venosa var. montana, flower is just starting to poke through

rubra gulfensis "Ancestral"

rubra gulfensis "Tall Red"

rubra alabamensis #007

psittacina

a flava division that has been neglected...

 

[Crofthulhu]

Lol, us Washingtonians are all taking advantage of the sun today.. bhaha. Beautiful flowers everyone! You're all making me both excited and jelous!!111

Here's mine.. not much, I was expecting more.

Darlingtonia.. been waiting patiently on this thing just to pop out and say hello for two weeks now. There's also only ONE out of my 4 plants that should be flowering this year.

S. leucophylla 'Tarnok'.. 4 stalks.

S. flava

Hoping that little middle bump is a stalk because I looove this random purp hybrid

 

[SirKristoff]

Of course we are soaking up the sun, because it could be raining in a matter of hours haha...
What part of WA. are you in?

 

[joossa]

Awesome guys! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Alexis]

Brie - your venosa looks like var. montana to me. The triangular hoods that almost meet in the middle would fit.

 

[Crofthulhu]

Of course we are soaking up the sun, because it could be raining in a matter of hours haha...
What part of WA. are you in?

I'm in Shoreline, I'm not from WA so I don't know it too well. I laughed pretty hard when I popped on here to see two Washington posts, and that we were all pretty much doing the same thing, taking advantage of the same sun.

 

[SirKristoff]

Alexis - I agree, I believe it is a var. Montana as well, didn't you get it from Scott at out meeting Brie? If so it came from Jerry Addington, and there should be no doubt on the ID, since it would have came from the same batch of seedlings as my var. Montana plants, which are definitely what they are supposed to be... It is just within the natural variation of the plants... Typically with purpurea, the pitchers darken over winter anyway...