Garden Update - I've been puttering around the yard, re-potting plants, fussing with my orchids and carnivorous plants (Nepenthes and Sarracenia Purpurea). I also checked to make sure there are wild bees in my garden - and yes there are, although not very many.
Here are some pictures. The top one shows where my new epidendrum is. He needs a nice pot.
Then there's Seymour the cannibal plant, re-potted. After he flowered last December, he started to look ratty, and I had to cut off some brown leaves. I hope he's just hibernating. In any case, he looked lost in his big pot and so I got him a smaller pot. He still doesn't look great and if any one has a suggestion about Seymour, email me, cbrainard@aol.com.
The Sirens, cannibal plants - Nepenthes, are fine. They're sprouting new leaves on top. (Some of their pitchers turned brown and I clipped them off; I hope that was all right to do.)
The Girls (orchids) are in ICU. They got a bit whoozy because I didn't know enough to remove their roots from the Sphagnum Moss when they got home. They've been re-potted and I'm not watering them for a while. I'm spraying their leaves and doing my best to dampen the area around them for humidity. The leaves of some of the orchids aren't firm - oh, dear.
Have a great day.
Sphagnum Moss Almost Killed My Orchids
Growing Orchids - Remembering My Mother and Taking the Plunge
My cannibal pitcher plant caught a fly
Seymour my cannibal pitcher plant has a flower
Introducing my Cannibal Hanging Pitcher Plants
tags: garden, gardening, orchids, plants, flowers, bees. yard, home
This is all for now,
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