Dieter Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Hi all, this morning quite a few of my sundews displayed their intention to flower today. Unfortunately, I had to leave for work, but I went home for a extended lunch break. I just had very little time to shoot the pictures, so I did not have much attention on the quality. I hope you like them anyway. A couple of tuberous species for the start: I tried to cross this one with a D. menziesii ssp. basifolia. I hope it worked. Will be interesting to see the resulting plant... About a year ago I obtained gemmae of this species from two UK growers. The resulting plants looked quite different, one form gets much redder than the other one. Now finally the second form opened some flowers. For comparison, I added the link to last year's flowers of the other form. I presented this one recently, but here it is again (with a D. citrina flower for scale...): A comparison of D. barbigera and D. miniata. Many thanks to those who made this possible by providing the gemmae. Enjoy! Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 I really enjoyed looking at your flowers - they're lovely! Thanks for sharing. Gill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sheila Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Mmmm the barbigera flowers are amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radmegan Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Agreed! The barbigera are stunning!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris35 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Thank you for sharing. Very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Earl Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 As Megan and Sheila say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Impressive display of flowers Dieter ! Those orange suns make an awesome sight! Friendly, François. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khelljuhg Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Wonderful flowers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted April 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Thank you for your nice comments! I hope that there will be lots of flowers during the easter weekend again. D. sewelliae is just about to start mass flowering - hopefully not tomorrow. The thumbnail links are fixed now (thanks to Nicole). Cheers Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vash Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Stunning as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Great pics, Dieter. Concerning the flowers, d. miniata does not deserve its name The barbigera is also fantastic. Thanks for sharing Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loakesy Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Such amazing flowers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Thankfully we had a very nice day today and once again many plants decided to flower. This time D. sewelliae entered the show with 8 flowers in one pot as well. Interestingly, the D. miniata once more showed the two different folding patterns as shown in my first post. Just one picture showing the unfolding flower buds. Martin posted some more pictures so I won't bore you with more pictures of this process here. Now a side by side view of D. sewelliae flowers with D. miniata (the poorly focused flowers)... ...and a family picture with D. barbigera joining the show (once again poorly focused). Enjoy! Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanW Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Wow, traumhafte Farben! (awesome colours) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Hi Dieter, once again great pics! You did a better job then me by catching the metallic effect on the sewelliae petals, esp. in the third pic of this species - this comes very close to the real beauty of this flowers. And I see you like them in the unfolded stage too :) Now that you had the chance to see some orange pygmies side by side, what is your favourite one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 surprise, surprise: D. sewelliae Cheers Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khelljuhg Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Beautiful flowers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenofeden Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 superb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Aw ! Those shimmering sewelliae flowers are staggering!! Thanks for sharing, Dieter! François. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Green Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Just love all those orange flowers. Amazing that small plants can have such large flowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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