February 2018

[beautytubes]

Yes folks, the good old Putin sent us Sibirian weather to Austria: -14°C in the morning. We should have spring allready!

A defect lifter of a flap of my greenhouse kept it open over night.

Ice on Sarracenia seedling substrate!

One of my Cephaluts with frozen Sphagnum! Will he survive (yes he will C. can take some cold temperatutres!)?

No wonder the temperatures in the greenhouse droped below 0°C!

I add one more Radiator! (Controlled by a switched socket, you can by it in any electronics store, I need the heating during winter time only)

But one miracle: D. peltata servived without any troubles! Do I Keep my tuberous Drosera still too warm during winter time??? No, I found D. peltata around Canberra (Australia). There they get snow sometimes!

... and the flavas are starting to bloom!

Outside of my greenhpuse I cultivate icicles now:

My garden bog is covered with ice and snow!

What typical Austrians do in such a case?

Winning gold metals in skiing competitions!!!

 

(note below my feets Pinguicula alpina!!! They will not be damaged because of the thick layer of snow and ice, in summer time I found some of the best Pinguicula vulgaris and alpina fields on snow tracks!)

[sidorian]

After a week or two of very warm, and especially rainy days in Ohio, the greenhouse plants are starting to break dormancy and announcing the beginning of the end to this winter....although I'm sure we are do for a cruel cold snap in the coming weeks.  Finally got some free time to beginning organizing the plants and carry out my strategy to have more room for more cultivars.

Goal is to go from this:



To this!:


This results in 25 plants in the same space as 16 plants.  Granted, I will have to keep an eye on crowding and shading but it looks so much tidier for now.  And I have room for more plants!

Here is one of the first blossoms getting ready, from Fuji x Red Blush, cross by Wes Buckner and one of my favorites last year:

 

[meizzwang]

Not much more to show right now, a few flower buds are emerging here and there. One or two plants have traps, and the rest are pretty much still dormant.

Still have some trimming to do, but my slave labor (aka family) has been helping out:






Tall plants are always cut down first because they'll suffer if you don't. You can see from this picture, quite a few sections still need to be cleaned up, but those are all the shorter plants (ie. psitts and purps):


These are mostly leucophyllas:

[gotsarrs]

Wow! You got a lot done Mike. 

[boarderlib]

You even got the dog working. I love it Mike!

[gotsarrs]

I don't see a dog. 

[boarderlib]

Feb 28, 2018 18:24:17 GMT -5 gotsarrs said:

I don't see a dog. 

First pic, middle right. Next to what I would have to believe is Mike's daughter. (I didn't want to misspell her name)

[gotsarrs]

Mar 1, 2018 7:38:19 GMT -5 boarderlib said:

Feb 28, 2018 18:24:17 GMT -5 gotsarrs said:

I don't see a dog. 

First pic, middle right. Next to what I would have to believe is Mike's daughter. (I didn't want to misspell her name)

That's a dog? I think it's a plastic bag fill of debris. Where it's tied shut would be the 'tail'. Mike, settle this for us. Did you have a dog helping you? 

[boarderlib]

After taking a closer look it would appear I need new glasses😂

[gotsarrs]

Mar 1, 2018 9:53:50 GMT -5 boarderlib said:

After taking a closer look it would appear I need new glasses😂

Hey, it may be me who needs a new pair of glasses. LOL