Spring coming

Howdy! Spring is now coming to Finland too. Some kind of Crocus sp. Flowering outdoors If you look carefully you will see a bumblebee in the most right of the flowers.

Phalaenopsis orchid continues making flowers to old flowerstalk.

Ludisia discolor cuttings growing alongside with Nepenthes ampullaria 'Brunei Red' x 'Harlequin'


N. ampullaria's so far biggest pitcher. It's 7 cm (2.7") high including the height of lid.

Pinguicula emarginata is enjoying the new growing light.

Pinguicula laueana is growing nicely too. It's just making more and more leaves and growing more rapidly. I wish to see the plant flowering someday.

Utricularia livida 'Blue' gaining a nice color on it's flower.

Flower of seedgrown Utricularia calycifida from Gran Sabana.

Flower of Utricularia nephrophylla from Serra dos Orgaos, Brazil. Inspired by Sebulon from CPUK I wanted to see how root system of my Utricularia alpina is doing. Here's the plant.


and here's the root system

  I'd say that's pretty well if you notice that when I got this plant it had only two leaves and one tuber. It tried to flower for me but then I over watered it and the flowerstalk rot away.
Spring coming and temperatures are slowly going up. I think I can start ordering plants in following few weeks if the temperatures keep rising so that we will not have frost during night. Enjoy the spring!