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Bob H

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  1. I have a few Utrics but I'm no 'expert'. All I can do is tell you how I keep mine and how they do. nelumbifolia - water about half the depth of pot, about to flower again. nephrophylla - 1-5 cm, white form flwering now. alpina - 1cm water, no flowers this season but 150cm basket full of leaves. endresii - 1cm water and watered from above, flowered this season, lots of new leaves. longifolia - This is a good one :-) I keep it as an epiphyte, a terrestrial (1-5cm water) and it is growing as a semi aquatic in my terrarium, loads of runners snaking around the water with new leaves popping up every where.
  2. Hear, hear Stephen. It is not that I don't like seeing Sarras 'in the wild' but, they are better preserved and encouraged in their native home.
  3. No, that's OK Sean, you can keep them...... make good stew!
  4. Everything that is introduced will, probably, have an effect on native flora and fauna. Grey Squirrels have pushed the Red to the brink of extinction. Rabbits, though living a different lifestyle, have impacted on the native Hare. True, Pheasants and Doremice have had little impact, the fomer because they are hunted routinely, the latter because they breed so poorly. Let us increase the natural biodiversity in the wild and keep the foreigners in our gardens (plants that is not tourists... then again, living near a beach....)
  5. Wow, that Drosera is stunning, even if it is sleeping
  6. I think it would be a GREAT idea! They may look good and appear harmless but, they don't belong there. Turf em out, flog them off and use the proceeds for environmental conservation of The Lakes.
  7. Cheers Andy, nice images. Well done finding the Pings when they've finished flowering!
  8. I do like that exornata 'Peaches', if only had room for one Sarracenia... that would be the one I'd want.
  9. I'm no expert but, he has some 'interesting' 'rare' plants........and some interesting prices! I assume he is the one driving the new Porsche?
  10. Anytime...... whilst they are flowering that is I can only take credit for the photo, everyone else saw them before me, but then I was looking at some Lesser Water Parsnip
  11. I like the Ping in the rock Quinn I have a small cyclosecta in a bit of lava, with some Utric, but I like the green growing over the rock surface.
  12. I spent this morning at an "Aquatic plant identification" class, more Tea, Coffee and chat than ID We did a bit of Lab work and then went for a short field trip, literally. I had been saying.... 'I have yet to see Utrics in the wild, I've got them at home and I've seen Drosera and Pings but never Utrics' The rest of the group were very pleased to point these ones out About 300m, yes I do mean 300m!, of Dyke brimming with Water Soldier (Stratiotes aloides), flowering Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) and a few plants of Utricularia vulgaris in the rudest of health. All those yellow dots are Utric flower! I was allowed to take a couple of growth points, from the ID samples, to grow at home
  13. Nice images Quinn. Good to see CPs from NZ, not just OZ that has them ;-)
  14. Fascinating flowers! Is this form grown the same way as the 'typical' form?
  15. They are superb plants and the flowers are gob-smacking! It's just a shame they take sooooo long to come into flower and they aren't 2 inches long :D
  16. One of the reasons I have spent hours 'cleaning' pots of Utrics. Don't get me wrong I like subulata and bisquamata but, would you buy a contaminated U.dichotoma???
  17. Are Sharron fruit shrubs hardy enough to stay out?
  18. You might get some fruit from the Cape Gooseberries but, not a bumper crop. I grew some in 9inch pots a few years ago. Good crop but I had to eat the lot as the rest of the family didn't like them...... next time I'm making Physalis Jam and wine
  19. It would appear that the smaller leaved form of U.reniformis (Enfant Terrible) is more inclined to flower than the large leaved form. I have had this plant since Aug 2004, received as a starter and planted into a 6 inch pond basket with a loose mix of peat, perlite and sphagnum moss. Today I discovered the first flower spike emerging. (Canon EOS 300D, 18-55mm kit lens) I will update as the flowers open.
  20. Wow Markus, what a super flower. I love that wavey petal edge thing it's got going on
  21. Canon EOS 300D (USA=Rebel) and my old Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom Olympus (cropped) Canon (cropped)
  22. Yet another beautiful Utric flower
  23. Hey! Nice to see the three reniforms' flowers for comparison... I thank you!
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