Trying a new thing :)

Hey everyone,

I haven't posted in MOOOOONTHS and admittedly I've missed it like i never would have expected. Since I last posted all manner of things have happened, graduation, acceptance into uni, making new friends, visiting all manner of botanic gardens, forests and making hundreds of new discoveries... Including that my university has an owl post in one of their buildings that one of the lecturers per owls perches on from time to time. 

Well anyways, the blog posts may have stopped but the garden most certainly hasn't stopped growing, or more correctly, dieing. Sadly we've had one of the driest summers (our wet season) in years, with most of the state suffering a terrible drought. At the moment here at home the shade house is an oasis of green, with the plants inside and a fairy ring of grass surrounding it being the only green things in the whole yard. But hopefully the cool temperatures will being some unnatural rain... Oh the sweet delicious thought of rain...

Well, I'll conclude this post with a few photos and the promise to post more. I've just downloaded the blogger app for iPhone so hopefully this will allow me to blog on the busses in and out of uni and other such situations. 

Happy growing,

Michael 

Callistemon - Beachmont

Callistemon - Beachmont, a photo by tervo.michael on Flickr.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to use Flickr for the forum to try and get some stuff sorted out and hopefully make the whole photo upload process a lot easier.... lets see if I can figure it out... wish me luck :D

Carnivorous Collection

Hey Everyone,

I've just added a new "page" to my blog, that I'll use to list all my carnivorous plants, and link through to a post with photos and information about them.  Below is what I've got on the new page:

My love of carnivores has suddenly exploded and boy oh boy, the number of carnivores is growing at the same rate of the number of orchids when I first started out with them... so who knows where it might lead.... I don't think I'll be able to fit too many more collections into our yard without pushing mum's patience too far ;).  Mum's being really good about it and encouraging me, but so far I've got the orchids going (I calculated that it's about 66 sq metres under shade cloth this week), so who knows what's going to happen if/when my collection of carnivores and succulents/cacti get that big ;)

Anywhos, here's my list of carnivores so far; I'm going to try and link each plant to atleast a photo once they form some nice pitchers (they're currently in dormancy):

Genus	Species	Variety	Acquired	Acquired From
Dionea	muscipula		Jul-05	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	adelae		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	binata		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	burmanii		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	capensis		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	coccinicaulis		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Drosera	coccinicaulis	Albino	Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Drosera	filliformis		Jul-05	Gotcha Plants
Drosera	slackii		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Nepenthes	Alata Lantern		2009	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	Gothica		2009	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	Miranda		2013	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	ventricosa		2013	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	ventricosa x truncata		2013	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	X hookeriana		2013	Gotcha Plants
Nepenthes	X ventrata		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Pinguicula	moranensis		Aug-13	Richard (Whittering)
Sarracenia	(oreophila x leucophila) x Daina’s Delight		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	alata x leucophylla		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	Courtii		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	Exornata		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	flava		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	Flava x oreophila		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	leucophila		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	leucophylla x willisii		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	Mardi Gras		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	minor		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	Mitcheliana		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	mooreana		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	Moorei		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	oreophila		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	oreophila x purpurea		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	psittacina		Jul-13	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	purpurea		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	rubra	ssp. Alabmensis	Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Sarracenia	Scarlet Belle		Nov-09	Gotcha Plants
Sarracenia	Umlauftiana		Aug-13	Ron (cpfan01)
Utricularia	livida		Jun-13	Gotcha Plants
Utricularia	subulata		Jul-05	Gotcha Plants