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Lovely purps but I'm not buying a bleedin guinea pig !

Some close ups! Hope you enjoy them ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello, I have question about pollination white flowered Drosera regia. My friend lended me this plant because my pink flower Drosera regia are all flowering now. I supposed I will collect the pollen from white flower plants but it look like these plants not produce the pollen. Have somebody any experience with these plants. Today I pollinate white flowers with pollen from pink plants because stigmas look like ready. Regards Vaclav

Yes it's not bad at all, it's 24“ inches high and 20“ inches wide. Can't complain considering it was only £25.

It's huge!!! [emoji16] nice pitchers too! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry about the muck on the leaves, I didn't clean it off befor I took the pic!

N, Bloody Mary arrived today. Sent from my LG-H440n using Tapatalk

The wrap with transparent foil is a bad idea. It heats up more. This is called the greenhouse effect. A white cachepot will keep it cooler. I hope it pulls through. I have them in ceramic pots and they grow like mad in this climate. they are standing in water all day and night. So the evaporating water cools them down.

On my recent holiday in Cyprus, I managed to find the only species of Carnivorous plant on the island! - Pinguicula crystallina. Unfortunately they were in a hard to reach place and they are strictly protected, so no collecting of seed. Here's the habitat shot - Caledonia falls in the troodos mountains, Cyprus. I had previously read that they were near the water (obviously) in an otherwise very hot and arid island, but had almost given up on finding them whilst walking alongside the river. Whilst taking shots of the Caledonia falls themselves, I noticed something bright green behind the water... sure enough, there they were, clinging to the rock face behind the waterfall (about halfway up)! Lovely to see some in flower as well. (Excuse the slight blurriness - this was a hand-held telephoto shot in dappled shade)

Seems like neither of them are electable at this point. Cant believe there is nobody in parliament that isnt either incompetent or a lefty loony weirdo.

I feed them with guinea pig droppings as recommended by mike king and this is what you get! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

not enough light for sarracenia inside,some will grow under these conditions quite well but they really need full sun for as long as you can give it them to grow properly.Either that or its a bad clone. pictures also help,much better than words,was it a garden centre plant? e-bay or bought from a collector,all these little things can help with a diagnosis. ada

My regia's are the same - plastered in fly cadavers. I think a combination of leaf size, upright posture and gland sizes help ensnare prey, as my filliformis plants also seem to do fairly well with upright leaves, yet have fewer prey items on them. The large glands probably are key, as the small prey will struggle much harder to escape from a big blob of sticky mucilage! The impressive and relatively quick leaf curl response, also further ensures the prey are helplessly trapped. Incidentally, from your picture it looks as though your regia is placed at the back of your greenhouse against the glass? This will be another factor increasing fly trapping - they will fly in and travel to the back, not realising the glass is solid and as they hang about and start to turn back, they'll find the sticky leaves in the way!

Got to germinate first! Lol. I watched a few YouTube videos, so with a bit of luck they'll do something! :)

Well Hannah you have inspired me! Lol :), I took the plunge and ordered a Bloody Mary from Mark at Hampshire Carnivores, arriving Wednesday! I also ordered a range of seeds from Triffid.

Pop some slugs in them and you'll see a quick increase in growth!

Seems like a sporophyte isn't long-lived. Only two days after I noticed, some of them have already exploded and dispersed their spores.

And what a terrible thing it is too. No matter who you support or vote for, parliment needs a strong opposition to hold the governing party to account, to counter their more extreme views. If the country allows the opposition parties to be effectively washed away in this election then they might aswell be writing a blank cheque for may &co to do what they like. Whilst this has arisen from that referendum, that isn't the only issue.