Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

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One plant in the largest Drosophyllum tub has faded and expired, the other two are doing well. All other plants seem quite happy and we have the prospect of further flowers.

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Two of the Drosera are flowering today.

Drosera venusta v coccicaulis is small but perfectly formed.



The second is Drosera 'Helen' a Stephen Morley hybrid.

It certainly grabs attention.



And I wasn't really expecting a flower quite this size. It's a cracker for a Drosera

[fredg]

'Tis Orchidfest time again

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A small cloud of Stylidium caespitosum hovering above a Dionaea lagoon



A dark Sarracenia, I believe this is S. x courtii, please don't ask me to hunt the label out.



I used to worry about posting this one on here as I feared it could cause retina burn out. I can't see the point in that anymore.

[fredg]

This is what MrsG can do with the old Olympus bridge camera.

©MrsG

You don't need an expensive DSLR to get good photos 

[fredg]

This is the flower of Drosera x obovata. It shows clearly why this plant isn't grown for its flowers. This one is 4mm across though the plant will open a fresh one daily over the season.

   

Quite often the buds on some plants can outshine the flowers of another.

The buds of Drosera regia.



Another example, the flower of Drosera filiformis with the hairy buds beneath it

[fredg]

A bit of extra colour.

Cerinthe major purpurescens



A red 'Martagon'



Lilium 'Fairy Morning'



And finally Arisaema franchetianum

[fredg]

Arisaema flavum.

These are self fertile so seed is produced readily each year. I had quite an number in pots and to reduce the pots I have to manage, I scattered plants in groups around the garden. This didn't go down too well with them, I don't think they appreciated the competition from the other garden plants. I thought I'd lost them until I spotted a few leaves last year. These were potted up and now, thankfully, I have my little yellow spaths back.

       

A bonus this year was discovering a pot marked " Misc pips" turned out to be A. flavum too.



The spath of Arisaema franchetianum has adopted the 'position'.

   

[fredg]

The Drosophyllum are off again.Nice simple large, for a sticky, yellow flowers.

[fredg]

This pot of 'grass' sends up these delightful little clouds of flowers every year. The only problem I have with it is the label went walkies. I'm sure some fine person on here can help with that.



It seeds profusely too 

[Steve Garvie]

Anomatheca laxa?

[fredg]

That name strikes a chord. Thank you Steve 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Now Freesia laxa

[fredg]

I love it

Freesia laxa - The false freesia 

[fredg]

L. 'Fairy Morning' flowered some weeks ago and I've been trying to remember what happened to L. 'Arabian Knight'. MrsG and I couldn't find the tub of them anywhere.
Then the remaining buds in the 'Fairy Morning' tub opened and ooooooooops it says they're both in there on the label.





Allium plummerae, apparently a rare plant outside its native Arizona.