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!

BIG photo update

Hey there. Sorry for taking so long to make new post. I've been busy because of studying and family parties, but now back to the updates for the plants.

After spectacular flowering my Jewel orchid is happily putting up some new qrowth.



D. kaiteurensis seeds have germinated and the germination rate was totally amazing!



D. sessifolia is a lovely annual species which looks very much like D. burmannii
and is a weedy species. Better to keep this lovely plant under control.



D. coccicaulis and lots of moss.



D. felix which had a strong will to survive.



And I said that pygmy sundews aren't anything special but this little fella really is something. Small but beautiful D. omissa x pulchella.



D. venusta which almost got forgotten on the table for 2 weeks with no water and extra light is looking a bit better now.



U. minutissima from Gunung Tahan starting to bloom



and there are even more stalks yet to bloom



U. nephrophylla is growing a nice flowerstalk too. This plant grows in open terraria to maximize the ventilation




U. alpina doesn't like open terraria anymore and the flowerstalk is slowly turning yellow :(



U reniformis keeps growing larger and larger leaves. Hopefully it starts flowering when conditions are a bit better for my epiphytic utrics



U. tricolor and mystery of what potting mix did I use for this plant again?



Love for Australian plants.









But life isn't just happy things. I now declare the plants that have died in this rough winter.

Drosera neocaledonica
Drosera slackii
Drosera sp. 'Pretty Rosette'
Genlisea lobata x violacea
Nepenthes sanguinea 'Black Beauty'
Nepenthes x 'Hookeriana'
Pinguicula lusitanica
Utricularia sandersonii

But in the summer I will make up for the losses and order some more plants and try to make some things for my terraria setup but I will update about that later.
60 cm of snow and -10 celcius outside but warm cup of hot hot chocolate keeps body and thoughts warm. Another thing that keeps my thoughts warm is to see numbers larger than 2 000 in total pageviews. Thank you very much for reading my blog!

Happy holidays!

Jewel Orchid Ludisia discolor flowers very impressively at the moment.





And then heres gift from my relatives nice potfull of Poinsettia.




Happy holidays for you my reader!

Thanks for reading my blog! :-)