Ryan

New pitcher on my Nepenthes (Ventricosa x Sibuyanensis) x (maxima x Spectabilis)! The heat over the weekend didn’t kill them yay ☺️

I imagin they would be quite variable! The ones here were a short scrambly prostrate shrub

Ah cool! Good to know

Enchylaena tomentosa also another common species this time spread out over a very large distribution across Australia! I’m not sure if these are yellow colour form or underripe as they are usually red 🤔

I’m pretty sure this is Salicornia quinqueflora but don’t quote me on that 😅 no flowers on these one but surviving through the sun and salt blasted rocks

The scorpion! It already stung it a few times when I was observing the fight so she got a decent meal last night!

Some night time visitors! A Lychas marmoreus, Rebilus sp. (I believe) and a Katydid!

Frankenia pauciflora blooming at canal rocks! So tiny and delicate looking for a tough lil shrub! This is a widespread species often growing around salt lakes and coastal areas!

Ooo that would have been soo cool to see! Such cool flowers

My Prosthechea cochleata is in bloom again 😍

Not bad for a phone pic! The Luna eclipse, so eery to see the earth shadow! Soo cool

Potted up my Anigozanthos gabrielae into some bigger pots! This little Kangaroo Paw is pretty much a miniature species found mostly found around the Stirling ranges and surrounding areas and a distant population in the cape arid NP! Excited to see the flowers!

I’m still getting the hang of them, but I have some seedling that I took from my grow tent and have them out in the patio and they been doing much better! I just caved and got this one ahaha 😅 now I just got to keep it going

If you have a bright windowsill you can adapt them to be inside, bright but not full sun tho, I imagin a window sill that gets the morning sun would work well. Or in a cool sheltered spot in a shade/greenhouse. these ones have been acclimatised outside in the Perth hills so hoping they do well

They had a display plant of this hanging like near 7ft long! Was amazing!

Go to a garden show, surely I won’t buy any more plants right… just look right… mission failed 😂 but omg this Nepenthes truncata x veitchii is a unit!

The dots progress further! Getting close to be catching fungus gnats 😂

And so begins the very long wait for this first flowering Paph micranthum seedling to bloom! I was not expecting it to flower soo soon!

My Restrepia is always blooming for me 😍

Getting there!

Working more on the shading, bit by bit it’s coming together!

Oh yeah in the wild I see a lot here under allocasuarina as well, I think it’s something about the litter being beneficial for the fungi. Tho in cultivation unless the fungus they use is in the pot I’m not sure if it would have a similar effect 🤔

I got it like this, probably done to keep soil off the rosettes of leaves. Many grow under sheoaks, and I’m guessing people think this may help promote beneficial fungi, not sure if this species is specific or not to a particular orchid mycorrhiza tho 🤷🏻‍♂️

Omg such an amazing shot of them 😍

Really hard to get a good photo of this plant, but this is Utricularia gibba, a species of bladderwort that looks more like a green carnivorous hair ball than a plant tho 😂

My little Pterostylis curta tubers are waking up! Well at least one is but that is still exciting!

The dots continue!

These are just such cute flowers! Lomandra suaveolens is a widespread local species to Perth and the southwest, and due to this flowering strategy probably many would never notice them! This may eventually be host to Cassytha glabella but for now I can enjoy these blooms!

Another new one in my care been a while since I kept triggerplants! Stylidium caespitosum

Dots dots and more dots!