Dear all,

here are some shots of my plants I just posted in the German forum. The pictures are barely snap shot quality, but I hope they at least give some idea of how I grow these plants.

Two trays with plants (rosetted, erect and small climbing species)





Between hte trays I have two pots with D. rupciola which show more colour than ever before:


Some more D. browniana shots







D. zigzagia is the first of my yellow flowering species.




The pink flower is a D. menziesii ssp. basifolia.


Early in the season all of my flowers are white. On the shots above you may have detected a D. whittakeri ssp. aberrans and D. graniticola. In addition, a D. macrantha (a Rock Outcrop form?) opened a flower today:


Another species is just about to end its flowering season: D. macrophylla ssp. monatha. The last flower did not look good anymore. Therefore I show some shots I made a few days ago:








Now some plants: The largest of my D. porrecta youngsters. It was grown from seed 2-3 years ago. Slowly getting somewhere...


The whole pot:


Finally a very beautiful D. andersoniana. This picture can not even nearly give an impression of what these plants look like




I hope you like them!

Cheers
Dieter

that plants are really beautiful !! congratulations !!

Really nice collection you have got there. May I ask how you grow them? In which conditions?

I was not able to open the links you sent me so I had to wait for you to post those pics
Beautifully grown plants!!
You did get a good number through your freezing winter.

AMAZING!!!!!

What a beautiful collection!

Thank you for your nice comments!

Nadja, the picture link I mailed you are posted here in different threads. The pictures are in far better quality than today's pictures, so it may be worth to take a look: Check out this and that.

Jimmie, the plants are currently growing in my "wintergarden". That certainly is a structure that nobody else has as my grandfather in law started to construct this on a south facing balkony and never really completed it. It offers protection from rain and to some extent from low temperatures. However, there is a lot of air exchange to the outside and the temperature can quickly fall as I experienced in december: two night with frosts below -10 °C. The first night the temperature fell inside to a little more than -5 °C, the second night it reached -9°C. I had the tuberous sundews moved inside the house during the second night but some got hit by the frost during the first night. Not too good, but most growing plants got away without visible damage or some mild frost bites.
However, usually the winter temperature barely hit the 0°C mark during the past winter seasons.

The tuberous sundews are currently growing on the top shelf in the wintergarden and get some additional light from a couple of T5 bulbs. In april or so I will move the tuberous drosera outside on the south facing balcony as it can already get quite warm inside, especially on sunny days. Up to 35 °C can already be hit then (measured 50 cm above ground and the plants grow above head level, so much warmer there).
Then it is time for a big move anyway: tropical plants move into the wintergarden and plants prefering less heat get a spot outside.

Once the tuberous species go dormant, I let them dry out a bit and place them in a cool and dark room (a basement below the carport - who else has that?) where they spend the summer season until they start growing again.

Best regards
Dieter

Ok thank you a lot. Thinking of getting some Tuberous Droseras to for next winter.

Absoluetly gorgeous! Very beautiful plants

Dieter, that is one of the best tuberous drosera collenctions!:-) Thanx for the tips as well. :-)

Hi Dieter,

really great collection of tuberous Drosera.

Best regards,

Dani

Great idea Jimmie !!! Best plants against winter-depression

And lovely collection Dieter!! Everybody needs a "wintergarden" like yours!!

Iggy

Hi Iggy,

you certainly have a point here. I always enjoy it to watch the plants appear and grow. The next good point is that there are always flowers and great looking plants during the full season.


Dieter

Dieter, for your droseras now i love this genus!

jajaja

Thanks! Incredible collection!

Hi Dieter,

great collection and very nice pics!

Interesting, that the rupicola intensifies its colour with age. Maybe up to the cold temps this winter?

Anyway, fantastic plants. Congrats -

Martin

Yeah that was exactly what I was thinking When everthing is brown and booring you will at least have something to nurse

Dieter: may I also ask what daytime temperatures you have in your wintergarden?

Thanks Dieter, those pics in the links really are fantastic!
It's great to see such detail otherwise hard to see with the naked eye.