Okay, decided to upload this one into the place where you can get stickers, magnets, the pink petals of a predatory plant on a miniskirt, maybe a dart board. (Adjusts glasses) Oh, maybe an art board.
Okay, Celia, time for your dramatic lighting closeup! Sarracenia rosaea. Even your scientific name is beautiful.
Celia has started dropping pollen from her anthers, so I pollinated her and took some celebratory shots with the good camera :).
More on how this flower has designed itself to prevent self pollination, unless some fool like me interferes, found here:
Celia is blooming! She's my fav pitcher plant, a weed found in some moss I bought, often does some tequila sunrise colors, thus Celia named after Celia Hodes on Weeds. Now I will be able to self pollinate her, and find clues to her parentage by examining what comes up, as well as maybe get a similar but even more beautiful plant :). I haven't seen a mostly veinless pitcher that produced such color, but I am only a dabbler.
#gardening #CarnivorousPlants
In the fall I took rhizome cuttings of four and five leaf clover leaves, and I thought I was finally getting a four leaf clover in the pot, but nope. 6. Mutations are so cool.
Awwe, my tiny little micro tomato already wants to bloom. Orange Hat tomato seeds from Baker's Creek.
Found it. I will use this to clear out the overgrowth in areas I then fork the seeds into, before the cold rains begin and the ground gets too hard. All of my gathered wildflower seeds are thrown together, so I do it again in the spring. I'll sharpen it tonight.
I think I'll wear my "I was stoned in Salem" shirt.
Nature, science, and art are super cool.
She/they cishet.