I decided I should show my collection as a group.

Here are some poor shots. I’ll take better ones when I have a little more time to take better care.

In this first shot you can see the size of the Nepenthes “Mardi Gras” compared to the other pitchers. To give this some scale: the green water tank on the left is a 100 litre tank… still no sense of size? OK, the length of  the slightly lower pitcher on the centre top plant with the blue tag  (N. “Mardi Gras”, the one with the really red lips [peristome]) is 250mm/9.84 inches. The bud on the far right of that same plant is the bud I am chronicling in this blog.   The two plants hanging in the small green pots are Nepenthes mirabilis varieties. I bought them from Bunnings, just up the road from my home, when I say bought I mean pretty well rescued them as they were drying out.  N. mirabilis are native to Queensland. My first Tropical pitcher, over twenty years ago, was a mirabilis and it survived horrible treatment – eroded potting mix in a large but only partly filled pot with constant drip from a tap with town water – not rainwater. It survived for a few years until it couldn’t take it any more. I’ve learnt a lot since those days, thank goodness.

Nepenthes hangers

This next shot is of my  Trumpet pitcher plant experimental swamp gardens. They require boggy conditions and this is the beginning of their second year in these long troughs. The larger central pot partly in shot, bottom centre of the first photo, will house the more prostrate forms later this month, and some of the smaller prostrate forms will end up in a couple of self-watering pots just “vacated” today by two of the Tropical pitchers. I found they were too wet and one thing a tropical pitcher hates is very wet feet.

Sarrecenia

This next shot is of Drosera binata, bifurcated long stemmed sundews. I have two specimens a golden (in the green pot) and an extrema. These two have just been repotted from larger pots as they need to have a good aerated potting mix with good flow through for water.

Drosera binata

The two long stemmed sundews at the left of this next shot are Drosera filiformis, they are a native to Queensland and usually go dormant in the drier and hotter months. They are new to my collection. The other three pots on the right are the very common Drosera capensis Cape Sundews. I have three different varieties.

Drosera collection