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One of my favourite genera of CPs. While for
most part I'm a purist (species forever! cheers!), but somehow
I cannot resist the myriad of colours, shapes and variety
offered by these Sarracenia hybrids. In fact, I hate to admit
this but most Sarracenia hybrids look more spectacular than
their parent species themselves! For example, S.oreophila is
well-famed for adding hybrid vigour to its progeny - anything
crossed with this next-to-plain plant almost always turn out
to grow in gigantic proportions and boast vibrant colouration.
Yet another lovely aspect of Sarracenia
cultivation is the flowers themselves. The colours, the smell
- oooh!
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S. x courtii
(S.purpurea x S.psittacina) -
one of the neatest and easiest S.psittacina hybrids to
grow. Rapidly fills up an entire pot to form an
impressive show specimen. Shown in bud in the photos -
flowers are a dark maroon. |
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S. x excellens
(S.leucophylla x S.minor) -
definitely my favourite hybrid. There are many other
stunning new hybrids popping up these days, but nothing
matches the simple beauty and vigour of this primary
hybrid. |
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S. x popei "Red" on left, S. x
readii on right. I bought the S. x popei "Red"
for my mom as a birthday present, but eventually it
found its way to my own collection. =P The S. x
readii is an absolute weed, and you can see that it's
filling up the pot quickly. Eventually I had to divide
it into 5 separate, and still multi-growth plants. |
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S. x popei "Red" in flower.
Scented peach-coloured flower! |
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S. x mitchelliana "Red" - very
nice and easy hybrid. The lids flare upwards due to
S.purpurea parentage, but this unfortunately causes the
pitchers to fill up with water after a rain and falling
over. |
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A tray of S.purpurea ssp. venosa
on the
balcony. This plant is very easy to grow and quickly
fills up pots too! Flowers consistently for me each
year.
The plant on the right was gotten off a trade to Canada,
and the plants exhibited a startling shade of magenta on
almost the entire plant. Love it! |
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S.leucophylla "Green" -
attractive variety of S.leucophylla. Somehow the lack of
red colouration makes this plant even more attractive! |
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S. rubra ssp. jonesii in bud - Very neat
plant, wish I had more of these! |
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S.rubra ssp. jonesii in flower - the
flowers are very nicely scented, somewhat like a
nutmeggy smell. |
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S.flava "Maxima" - There are 2
forms of "Maxima" around. This one shown is
the misnomer, which simply means a gigantic S.flava as
you can tell from the pics. I had to stake the pitchers
up to prevent them from falling over. The real "Maxima"
actually refers to the all-green variety of S.flava. |
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S.oreophilla. Most unfortunately, these
plants do not do well for me. Notice the sickle-shaped
summer leaves below the normal carnivorous fall
leaves. |
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S.psittacina |
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S. (oreophila
x (x mitchelliana)). Very beautiful large
traps. |
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S.flava "Maxima" in
flower. |
Many of these plants are for trade and/or sale! Please
visit the Marketplace
to view the latest selection of available mature plants I'm
offering. If you see something you like and I've not listed it
in the Marketplace,
do drop me a mail
and I'll make arrangements to have one of these plants ready
for you!
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