Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

[fredg]

I've been trying to ID a few more in the Fernery, so here they are so far.





There's more 

[fredg]

The Dionaea are coming to the end of their season. Here's a couple of cultivars to show some of the variation available.

Top:       A young division of Dionaea muscipula 'Pink Venus'
Bottom:  D. muscipula 'Green Sawtooth' with an "empty", the exoskeleton of an eaten fly.

[fredg]

The stocking of the Fernery (and immediate surrounding area - shhh don't tell MrsG) continues. This is the latest to be planted, I think it's a little cracker.

Arachnoides simplicior 'Variegata', also know a the Japanese Variegated Holly Fern and the East Indian Variegated Shield Fern, I suppose any combination thereof will do too. It seems this one will be happy on the drier side.



Now to find a Bamboo fern 

[fredg]

Continuing the Dionaea cultivar theme, a few more before they go to bed for the winter.


Bohemian Garnet
Shark's Teeth


Big Mouth
Sawtooth


Fused Tooth 1 and 2

[fredg]

Now It's really getting to the end of the season. Today I removed the wire netting from the top two greenhouse's doors and reinstalled the glass.
The Darlingtonia House will be left for a few weeks and then I just cover the netting with bubble wrap for the cold season. Dismantling the door to reintroduce the polycarbonate is not an option. That's one of those fiddly five minute jobs that can take three days.

I was checking some pots and the Lilium hansonii from seed (2012) are looking good. There's a chance one is of a size to flower next year the others in 2017. They're reputedly very highly scented and one will perfume the garden. I may have overkill with the amount of bulbs I now have   8-).

On Wednesday ( Sept 30th) I finished planting  out all of my 2015 acquired bulbs, it must be a record to be at that stage before September ended, I can't remember finishing so soon before.

[fredg]

This cultivar, 'Akai Ryu' has been around for many years.



Incidentallly, on the Big Mouth photo above, the bottom left trap does have legs sticking out.

[brianw]

Hi Fred

This is my first year keeping Darlingtonia and Sarracenia flava (Maxima?) outside all the time. The latter had to be tied up to stop it falling about, and then even worse when the rains arrived the trumpets filled up and became more unstable.
Do you know how this much increased "soup" volume effects growth? There are plenty of wasps etc. inside.
Do you artificially add any liquid to the trumpets under cover? Mine got the occasional spray but that was all.

My Sarracenia purpurea (southern form) won a cup/bowl and RHS medal in the local gardening society show for best foliage plant. Over a foot across but just in a 5" pot. No queries on if it was "foliage".

[fredg]

Brian,
No liquid in Sarracenia pitchers should be added except for S. purpurea and some of its very simple hybrids. Even these don't really require it. Mine haven't had water in their pitchers for years and they do just fine.





There should be no queries on pitchers being foliage, that's exactly what they are.

[fredg]

I posted this on August 7th



Now it looks like this



Any help on ID?

[Chris Johnson]

Hi Fred

Have a look at Riccardia chamedryfolia and Riccardia multifida.

[fredg]

Chris, Riccardia chamedryfolia was my immediate 'guess' but when I checked yesterday it was a plant of wet places, even aquatic in some instances so I was stuck with Riccardia  without a species name. Now that you brought that one up first I rechecked and found this http://www.cisfbr.org.uk/Bryo/Cornish_Bryophytes_Riccardia_chamedryfolia.html
On there it's found in all sorts of situations so I'm happy that it's growing on clay, in woodland, next to a pathway.

Thank you, it's good to have a Bryologist at my finger tips ( plus a keyboard, computer and broadband). 

[fredg]

Well, MrsG let me go out alone to a Plant Fair. Considering the temptation I didn't do so bad, just five new ferns.
The first three I have potted up in square and round long toms to see how things go. The Dryopteris sieboldii was a distinctive three crowns so there's now a couple of square pots of that. The large Bamboo Fern I was hoping to split but on knocking out it's not at that stage yet Two of the fronds were damaged in transit so they've been "assisted" with a couple of wooden BBQ skewers

1 & 2. Dryopteris sieboldii, Japanese Wood Fern

3. Coniogramme japonica flavo-maculata, Bamboo Fern

4. Blechnum spicant, Deer Fern




With these two the scale is just wrong. The Asplenium is far larger than the Polystichum, the latter of which I hope will split when I knock it out tomorrow

Top, Asplenium scolopendrium 'Kayes Lacerated', Crispy Hart's Tongue Fern

Bottom. Polystichum setiferum congestum, Soft Shield fern

[Chris Johnson]

Thank you, it's good to have a Bryologist at my finger tips ...

Thanks for the promotion to bryologist, Fred, but undeserved.

I did spend a couple of years looking at them seriously, mainly in the winter when there were fewer fungi about. However, I've lapsed as I'm now looking at another branch of fungi. I hope to get back to them in the future.

[fredg]

The Polystichum setiferum congestum  certainly did need dividing. I suppose I could have gone further but four pots seemed enough for now. 

[fredg]

Back in June MrsG and I had a peramble down the River Meden  looking for Liverworts. Amongst others we came across this one below the outlet of a drainage pipe, so it is a very wet habitat.

June 5th ( measurements in mm)



Today it looks a little different.

October 8th



Mixed in with it is Lunularia cruciata and the one in question looks like a Riccardia but not the Riccardia chamedryfolia I found beside the woodland path.