Oregon in March

[Tony Willis]

Fred I take it this is what you wanted to see. very interesting but definitely difficult to appreciate with the plants growing through an endless mass of dead decaying pitchers.

[Diane Whitehead]

Fred,

No, I didn't visit any Darlingtonia this time.  Three roads that
go off Highway 199, that DO have Darlingtonia are:  Eight
Dollar Mountain Rd (between Selma and Cave Junction), Lone
Mountain Rd (at O'Brien) and French Hill Road (in California,
halfway between Gasquet and a redwood park)).

Here is an old photo from Lone Mountain Rd., mid-March 2007.

[fredg]

Oh my Diane, red adult pitchers, that's a rarity.
Was that a stand of them?

[Lesley Cox]

  P. tridentata covers 340 million acres and varies a lot,

Not "rare and endangered" then.

[Diane Whitehead]

I don't know whether conditions cause the different colours
in Darlingtonia.

Here's the red patch, in March.  They grow in cold seeps,
sometimes in very dry areas.

The green ones were on French Hill Road in August, from an
area more generally moist - note the Adiantum.

[fredg]

If the red one is in cultivation it's being kept very quiet.

I've been growing Darlingtonia for 25 years and never had red adult pitchers.

[Tony Willis]

Fred,

No, I didn't visit any Darlingtonia this time.  Three roads that
go off Highway 199, that DO have Darlingtonia are:  Eight
Dollar Mountain Rd (between Selma and Cave Junction), Lone
Mountain Rd (at O'Brien) and French Hill Road (in California,
halfway between Gasquet and a redwood park)).

Here is an old photo from Lone Mountain Rd., mid-March 2007.

Diane mine were taken at the reserve on the Eight Dollar Mountain road in May

[fredg]

Must have been great to see the bog Tony.
Wasn't it a little early to see the pitchers in full force though?
May for me would be flowers.

Looking at my stock of plants now I could do with a bog that size to plant them out  

[Tony Willis]

Fred  do not get me wrong it was wonderful and seeing them was one of the main aims of our trip but the scale is enormous and I think it must take more than a year for the old pitchers to decay and so there is a huge mass of rotting vegetation with the new growth and flowers rising above it.At the Eight Dollar Mountain site there is raised boardwalk which gives a view from above.

[fredg]

I think it must take more than a year for the old pitchers to decay and so there is a huge mass of rotting vegetation with the new growth and flowers rising above it.

It certainly does take a long time for the pitchers to completely die down in cultivation Tony, as for decaying
I'd give it several years altogether.

I have to rely on my views of the wild plants with the likes of this

[Diane Whitehead]

Kathy Allen has identified some of the plants I didn't know.  Check back
to page one.