tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130119632024-03-13T21:06:10.574+11:00Random Black Heart Glitter MomentsPhotography, musings, random bits and pieces. Without glitter.Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.comBlogger2063125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-17886912002359335862012-10-22T15:14:00.000+11:002012-10-22T15:15:08.091+11:00Mmm, pavlova<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-59949310855565230242012-09-01T16:11:00.004+10:002012-09-01T16:11:42.652+10:00Spring blossoms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-66038917525464910362012-04-27T17:01:00.001+10:002012-04-27T17:01:39.139+10:00Nepenthes tobaica x ampullaria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love my little Nepenthes tobaica x ampullaria. It's starting to put on more growth now, almost a year after I first got it as a small, straggly plant. Its latest leaf is bigger than any it has previously produced, and the stem is thickening out nicely.Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-86667250205998073082012-04-27T16:57:00.000+10:002012-04-27T16:58:07.064+10:00Nepenthes hirsuta x spathulata raceme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My Nepenthes hirsuta x spathulata has grown a flower stalk ^_^ I'm kind of excited about it, but also a little disappointed because none of the other Nepenthes are flowering (and/or are female! I think this Nep is male, based on the type of flowers it has produced). 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I bought this Nepenthes Tobaica x Ampullaria around the middle of last year as a very small, very weak, very yellow-looking tube stock plant. It had no pitchers, and the leaves were tiny. I think I bought it because I felt sorry for it. When I got it home, I repotted it and put it into one of the greenhouses, which is home to a few of the other pitcher plants. It took a long, long time for it to start growing properly. The first three leaves it produced when it recovered were very small - perhaps about two centimetres long at the most. They did all grow small pitchers on them, though, which were all actually larger than the leaves. <br />
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However, since this Summer, the plant's put on a lot of healthy growth and some great pitchers. I'm really glad that I bought it and took the risk without knowing what sort of pitchers it would grow, or whether it would grow at all. It turns out that its pitchers are gorgeous - they're my favourite, other than the pitchers that Morticia produces. I love the shape and the colours. <br />
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The other weekend, I purchased another small, sickly, yellow-leafed Nepenthes that's meant to be a Ventricosa (it had been there for the past few times I'd been to that nursery and I think it's another case of feeling really sorry for the plant). I'm hoping that one will have the same success as the Tobaica x Ampullaria. Since repotting that, its leaves have turned a nice healthy green and a second basal shoot has appeared on it. So I have some hope for it :)Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-7258293929657662702012-04-15T14:11:00.001+10:002012-04-15T14:12:26.171+10:00Morticia's pitcher<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgNnju6Bah7p_slie53ptg4jBIjs1-IZWUoRCpPtKLN2IYLymu-rn6V4NvSC3xSd36FzYRZV6TRL2KQU3TlDvfBAVV3MEztQh6vvORxG634Ir4fUVbhua7yEbXRMEjIZDLeLC1g/s1600/IMG_2283.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgNnju6Bah7p_slie53ptg4jBIjs1-IZWUoRCpPtKLN2IYLymu-rn6V4NvSC3xSd36FzYRZV6TRL2KQU3TlDvfBAVV3MEztQh6vvORxG634Ir4fUVbhua7yEbXRMEjIZDLeLC1g/s400/IMG_2283.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5731475542488748978" /></a>Dellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11904393324360933338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13011963.post-75177189350101952372012-04-15T14:09:00.001+10:002012-04-15T14:10:58.809+10:00Rainbow storms<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3u4cnHOCx3vqCeWdRkeST2W20hVC_ZXGrNiiJPW_X-xr2yCnu7kymBQ4eQqKD7EiNIPfbm82MRhsoj2rNSR6oWG0NUkbQOQb8n8vrIIml5phPMI8Py_CYEmVG05FwgRKWsuekw/s1600/IMG_2043.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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