Dear all,

winter is approaching and about a third a half of my winter growing plants show signs of growth now.
The first to flower was a D. whittakerii in this season, followed (since) a few weeks ago by this early bird. Its flowers stay usually open for several days and I had two open flowers yesterday but came home to late for any pictures. Now the two are way past their best, but a fresh flower opened for business:






This D. aff. tubaestylis usually is the first plant to flower in fall for me.
Yesterday another species started into its flower show. This one flowers for a first time in my hands and it also keeps its flowers alive for at least two days:













Others are still far from flowering but nevertheless looking good. This is my currently largest D. menziesii ssp. basifolia.



More still small plants: this D. macrantha was one of my first tuberous sundews.



Finally, here is a species comin from south africa: D. hilaris. These are seedlings about a year old.



I hope you like them!
Dieter

Great looking plants!

Hi Dieter,

Lovely plants and flowers,I like your D.prostratoscaposa !!!
Also D.hilaris is already big!! Well done.

Iggy

Tuberous drosera always impress me!! What about your setup? I'd like to start growing some of them!

The earliest plants got a space on my south facing balcony about couple of months ago. They were moved into the wintergarden on the same balcony when I got everything ready for the winter. Currently, they are placed on the top shelf in the wintergarden, get about 8-10 h of extra light (from 2 T5 tubes) in addition to all sunlight which makes it through the overcast.

Here is an overview over the climbing species, mostly D. macrantha ssp., D. modesta and D. pallida:


Erect and rosetted species:


You will also find some other plants there. Some of those will get a spot inside when the temperatures drop lower.

The tuberous species will stay here all winter. I moved them inside for the nights during the cold spell in january (with minimum temperatures of - 6°C in the wintergarden), but they spent the days out there. In spring the plants will get a spot on the balcony again until they go for dormany.

During dormany, the pots are put into a cool and dark spot and get no water at all.

I hope this helps
Dieter

Fantastic, thank you very much!

Some really really plants
Your Drosera hilaris is absolutely fabulous. Do you keep it a little wet or totally dry during summer?

Regards

Aymeric

Thank you so much for sharing these pics Dieter, they are beautiful (particularly the prostratoscapa in flower) :-)

Hi Dieter,

really very nice and healthy looking plants.
Where are you growing them?

Best regards,

Dani

Hi!

Beautiful plants!

But I must confess, I most like the Drosera hilaris.
You wrote that it was one year old. Has it in its first year already gone into dormancy, or did it grow continuously?
When did you plant the seeds?

I've some seeds of Drosera hilaris (and D. cistiflora; thanks Sean!) and wanted to figue out if now would be the time to plant them?

BTW: The D. trinervia I got from you is just starting to grow again.

Regards,

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

the D. trinervia started very early into this growing season for me. You can see some of them on the first overview shot on the front left side (and in the back on the right).

I sow my SA seeds (of winter growing plants) in late summer and treat them as the tuberous sundew seeds needing some pretreatment: hot or at least warm and dry, watering starting in september. I did not try other conditions, so I can only tell that my conditions worked.
This season I sowed only very few SA seeds. A D. pauciflora shows germination as do some tuberous sundew seeds. However, the better part of the pots shows no germination yet.

I kept D. hilaris under several different conditions. This pot was kept in the basement where the plants did not stop growing in summer (temperatures ranging from about 15 to 25 °C, constant light period of about 10 hours). Other plants which put in a summer rest do not look as beautiful at the moment, but I hope that is going to change soon.

@Daniel: maybe you did not find my post above where I described the conditions throughout the year. If you want more detailed information, please let me know.

Cheers
Dieter

Thanks for the information, Dieter!

Regards,
Stefan