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.

Collection of my finest snaps

Utricularia are mostly nice little plants. One problem with them is pots. In Finland it is almost impossible to find very small pots unless you buy dozens of mini cacti and re-pot them into a clay pot and then put the Utricularia in those mini pots like I did with U. tricolor.



But one day I got even a better idea.




Snaps glasses



After a small modification with a hot nail.



Clockwise from 12 o'clock U. pubescens, U. calycifida from Gran Sabana, U. uniflora, U. livida 'Blue Flower', U. livida right after being planted in snaps glasses.




Clockwise from 12 o'clock U. minutissima from Gunung Tahan, U. tridentata, U. laxa and U. calycifida 'Lavinia Whateley'

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! :-)