Utricularia asplundii

Today arrived the first packet for this year containing seeds of beautiful plant named Utricularia asplundii. Thanks to Sebulon! I will inform you all about how the seeds will grow.



Testing macro mode on  Phalaenopsis flower.


Cephalotus follicularis. Easy grower at least under my conditions. Biggest plant has made 2 new and smaller plant one new growing point.


Nepenthes veitchii 'Golden perisome' has now this 3 cm(1.18") high pitcherwith some nice colour.

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!

Plants starting to wake up

Howdy! Last week I took my North American plants out of my refrigerator and this is how they look now.



Flytrap



S. psittacina. The second growing point has died but the one left is starting to flower again.



S. purpurea hybrid looks very good at the moment.



S. x readii looks a bit dead but I hope it will fix after it starts to get more light.

I had my 18th birthday earlier in this month and one of my presents came from my sister. An orchid. She said to me that "I don't usually give men flowers but I think I dare to make an exception for you." :D



Nice small Phalaenopsis with leaf diameter about 30 cm. Flowerstalks are about 35 cm high and the color of the flowers is very lovely.




A mutant flower.



As I've heard you can notice a healthy orchid when you look at its roots. I think This is pretty healthy little plant.

Also my oldest Phal is blooming.



The spring is soon here and it's lovely to get some new plants soon! That's all for now and maybe I will have more flowers for my next blog post.