Celia, the purple pitcher hybrid on the right in the first pic, is a weed (the young peach tinted veinless traps can deepen to look like tequila sunrise). Hitchiked her way here in some live moss, is named after Celia in Weeds, 'cause tequila sunrise. She made me very happy by giving me my very first Sarracenia flower bud, which made me super excited, and I thought it would come up before her spring pitchers. Yet, she holds it firmly shut, still, in pic 2. Sigh.

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The nutrients Venus flytraps receive from insects allows them to blossom, and create seed. They bloom far above their deadly traps, to ensure the safety of their pollinator friends, only taking the lives they need to as they dance the dance of survival for those who fit.
Their niche is delicate, the balance of their environment is easily damaged, but their strategy still shows remarkable adaptability and resilience, even cooperation. (thread)
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I talk a lot about how there's always spiders near my plants, and share a lot of wee jumpers perched on pitcher plants, but they don't do as well around flytraps. In fact, wild flytraps mostly snack on beetles and spiders, not flies, as they grow close to the ground. Anyway, I was making this smaller to share with y'all and I realized there was an uncaught spider hiding on a leaf behind the trapped one :).
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It's May, so I'm a little frustrated that my garden seems to be taking it's sweet time waking up, but it's happening. This pot has made me happy, I lost the last adult D. filliformis last year (the long leafed sundew), good to see its babies. The tiny clump of green moss is a bit from a handful I grabbed at Walden Pond, I put samples in different places to see where it could grow. It's doing best in this pot.
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The same pitcher plant trap a few days apart. A Judith Hindle cultivar.

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Two in regular light, two with a sepia filter on the light (not a digital filter) for added velvety color drama. Pitcher plant, Judith Hindle cultivar.

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In tonight's edition of "but does it glow under a blacklight?" we have a Sarracenia "Yes."
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This pitcher decided it didn't want its colors to face as it grew. I've had lights breaking and being replaced all winter, just switched to a new type of light a month ago, if this leaf is an indication of what I will get with this light, I'm all for it. In a couple of days it should open fully and get as ruffled as the one behind it, it's going to make some lovely macro pics :)
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This one is probably going to make a lovely subject for macro photos when it opens :).
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I hear pitcher plants do better wintering outdoors, but those only have the tiniest of new pitchers promising to grow soon. Meanwhile, I took a bit off of one of them to enjoy inside during their dormancy (Judith Hindle cultivar), and the new leaves she's grown are shooting up quickly. The one bland leaf she managed to grow during the winter is now showing colors that rival those in fall. I think I'll try an indoor semi-dormancy next year, at least on a few.
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#VenusFlytrap leaves with two traps are very rare, and might only show once on a plant capable of producing it. This picture has two, from clone sisters who threw them out at the same time. Not visible is a third tiny one, that never grew very large. This was a couple of months after I broke up the cluster of babies that sprouted from the mother leaf. The same plants never did this again.

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This close to knowing what species of bladderwort hitched a ride on my live moss. I love this moment. Probably a common one, but who knows? It's gardening like playing Pokemon, looking for that rare. I don't understand reviews of live moss that say "weedy", I've gotten several Sarracenia hybrids, some flytraps, and this. It has carnivorous traps in the soil that prey on itty bittty pondlife critters. Such species should be called delightful surprises, not weeds.
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My grocery store Nepenthes (which only had "bug eating plant" on the label with zero mention of species) will be telling me who it is, soon. I've never owned this family before, I don't even know if the color might fade a little like a Sarracenia does as it swells, so it still could be a spotty type, or if it will continue to deepen. No spoilers please! I am enjoying the suspense and won't even try to identify it until the pitchers open.

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I made a microscope video for my kid :). She's 6, it's about life in a drop of water and shows a bladderwort trap. It's on Youtube, I embedded it in my blog to not use bandwith and space for it here.

https://tippitiwichet.com/2022/12/13/a-pond-water-video-for-my-baby-girl/

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While my mother plants go dormant on the porch, a few winter babies are starting to come up inside. The sundew box is full of cuttings, I want plenty of them for cheese making experiments next year. I picked D. intermedia for the sundew species, as it seems to be taking over the outdoor collection rather well.

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Today's Venus flytrap has red pigmentation, for cooler looking slides. The two of the same angle are lit from above and below, and together show quite well how the world is made of stained glass.

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So, I did what I do and took my repeating tile of Venus Flytrap cells and recolored it in vivid and unrealistic ways. Those can all be desktop wallpaper, if you feel so inclined, or let me know if you kind of want it on some Redbubble stuff, I can totally provide that for you.
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Drew a repeating tile using old school methods, like the crone I am. Venus flytrap digestive glands from inside the trap, on a leaf with no pigment. That's my desktop wallpaper now.
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Venus flytrap trigger hair. The dark clusters of cells are digestive glands. My #microscope newbie butt is proud of this one. I guarantee you my other slides did not look this good.

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Some of my plants, some of my art.

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