I have the pregnant onion (but we called it a false sea onion) that I've had for at least 30 years. I'm sure it's not the original bulb.... Because in that time I've moved probably a dozen times, had 6 dogs, 2 cats, 2 babies.... So it was very neglected at times. I had a lot of plants when I was younger (in my 20s) and as I had a family and moved, many were neglected and died. I have 3 or 4 still from back then (a Boston fern, a hibiscus, and the false sea onion.... I thought there was one more, but I can't think of it).... So that tells you this plant is a real survivor!
We were just talking about the types of sundew in Western Alaskan tundra in my botany class. We went out there for field work and they are TINY out there but if you look close you'll see them. So cute! Drosera rotundifolia, the one you mentioned, and also Drosera anglica grow where temps during winter drop to as low as -20 to -60 Fahrenheit (-28 to -50 Celsius) for days on end and there is very little light until the spring and summer. They bounce back! A lot of people here carnivorous plants and they thing hot tropical climate, but that's not always the case.
Oh! The pregnant onion! I always wanted that plant, but couldn't find it.... well, until a month ago.... One of my local garden centres was selling them for £3.99. Got 2, just in case....😜 And that "chicken fern" really intrigues me! I WANT IT! *(added to the wish list at #1!)
I have a golden chicken fern!! Just got it a few weeks ago so it's still just a little floof ball🤞They are much less expensive in Canada.. around $40- $70 CAD. Love the weird plant videos! 💚
The crassula connection is the pair of leaves fused together, succulents and for example baby's necklace or string of buttons leaves together. Love your videos ty! ❤ From USA Kentucky. 😊
I love those videos of weird houseplants ❤ As for the Sundew in the beginning: be aware that a lot of carnivorous plants actually need a winter break so they stay healthy. There are also a lot of carnivorous plants in our latitude. For example I found a few Sundews in the Estonian bogs. What I love to do with those plants: I take a big bucket and build a bog pot, where I plant Sarracenias, bog orchids and moss and put it on my balcony. It lives there year round. There are shops in Germany that sell Sonerilas, also with good care tips. For example Jungle Leaves
Drosera rotoundifolia is native from where I live in France but it is very endangered and protected. When in doubt always get plants from a trusted horticulturist and not from the wild.
Ceropegia bosseri is a really cool looking succulent. It basically looks like a spiky dragon's tail and it's a very dark almost black color. It has these really cool flowers too.
Ooo that jade needs a pruning too! So fun!! I love those beautiful jugs 😂 you say “Squidge” over, I say, gimme a “Squdge” a hug! Cute! Oh yes! I do have one of those, 2 jades in fact 😂 Watching another planty channel, they have a Tephrocactus geometricus and said she waits for the little balls to get a tiny bit deflated, the design on them gets more pronounced when they’re needing watering I adore the twisty tongue leaves of that Monstera Unniiae! We’ve got the Black bat flower plant here in Canada rn, I bought one but it didn’t appreciate my care 🤷♀️ leaf after leaf crisped and died, apparently from lack of humidity? I don’t have a cabinet to put it in … yet
Pleas do manzanita, it’s not an indoor plant but the bark is red, and it sheds that bark to a green bark, the flowers are pink or white and are shaped like bells. The berries can be used to make cider as well.
The stranger things plant would be hard to grow inside since it feeds off other plants. I guess you would have to plant other plants with it as sacrificial plants 🤔
My family and I went to a summer resort here in mid/northen Sweden, and when we went to fishing in local lake, I found bunch of sundew on a decaying log by the lake. Now I have a small one growing in my cabinet! I didn't know you could find CP in Sweden, I was very pleasantly surprised!
Yay! Thanks for featuring the Hydnora africana! I'm the opposite of you with this plant. I love how weird and bizarre it looks, and those roots are so cool! I think it would be incredibly difficult to keep as a house plant since it is parasitic. You'd have to keep a host plant as well. I don't need to have one, I'm just happy knowing this bizarre-o plant exists.😃
I have a drosera venusta which also grows in clusters and i have it growing in lots of direct sun and only use rainwater - it dried out once and lots of the clusters died and now i’m left with two haha but apart from this no issues growing and it grows fast for me. I feed all my carnivorous plants with bug bits that are in the form of fish flakes and all are happy :)
Sometimes places that sell dart frog supplies have sonerilas! Also dart frog people in general often have rare terrarium plants and might sell cuttings
Love these videos - thanks for sharing! There's a few crassula that have a columnar form where the leaves grow all the way around the stem like that - string of buttons, for example (crassula perforata). I really like all the common symmetrical crassulas like soButtons, pagoda and watch-chain. If you're not familiar there's some amazing images online
Check out Kleinia stapeliiformis or common name Pickle Plant. I saw these over a year ago and had to buy it. I'm basically a tropical buff but for the pickle plant I can make an exception. Love your videos Claire. They're always so bubbly. 😊
Hello. Love your videos. I have question non related to this topic. I want to buy Calathea, but I dont know which one is best for beginers. Thanks in advance ❤
I can't remember if you covered this, but I'd recommend alocasia plumbae (flying squid alocasia) for your next weird list, unless you already discussed it. Also, for those based in Europe, I'd ask about sourcing if purchasing the sundew featured as your first choice. It would probably be fine, but since plant poaching is an issue generally, I'd want to make sure that no one was pilfering local marshes to re-sell plants. Thanks for covering plant weirdos! I'm enjoying your series.
I had a Tacca Chantrieri. They come in black, green, or white. They call them the "bat" plant. The balls that hang down (generally about 8 or 9 balls) and those are the seeds. They grow very well in Florida. They need a great deal of humidity. When the seeds get are dry, I used to just push them into the sandy dirt. I had them all around my pool. I have tried growing them in Colorado, where I live now, and they do not grow here. They are small, not happy. But if you have a greenhouse, you will succeed.
Harli G has a tephrocactus geometricus. It’s adorable! Bat plants are generally available here in Florida. I had one 30 years ago when I was growing Orchids. Your jade plant can be used as a bonsai. It’s actually ready with the long stems.
Check out the life saver plant. I watched your other 2 videos. The blue oil fern is my favorite plant. It was pricey, but I enjoy seeing it so much every day. I believe it was worth every penny I paid for it.
Have four on your list. Most are recent. The Droseria I think will need a winter dormancy. I'd suggest looking for some that are just as nice and are from more tropical areas. The Pregnant Onion I have had - have a small one now. Grew them big and had them flower. Never noticed and smell issues. I look at it as a novelty plant. Once it has bloomed I tend to loss interest in the plant. Have the Tephrocacus - acually have three varieties. Only issue is the the 'balls' seem to break off easily. So growing one to the size of some you showed images of can't be easy. On the other hand you get lots of propogations. Do have the Chicken Fern - have had it about six weeks now and still waiting for it to start growing. As for plants to look at I'd suggest the Editholea Grandis. It is truelly wierd, but does have a nice looking flower. Just don't smell it.
Tephrocactus are in the family Opuntioideae and are related to prickly pears. Most Opuntioideae show that segmented growth pattern. It’s pretty much the same things as prickly pears except prickly pears form flat pads, whereas Tephrocactus form more rounded stem segments. They grow really fast just like prickly pears, but past a certain size they start falling apart. That’s how they reproduce in nature. Get them from a cactus nursery. Tephrocactus are super common. There’s nothing rare about them. A plant shop will overcharge you.
I have the drosera rotundifolia ( and many other droseras ). It regulary sprouts spontainious from live spagnum . So maybe if you grow some of your spagnum for the moss poles in a bowl with rainwater you'll get some for free. Bugbites is fishfood. Be carefull feeding them with that and dont use to much or it will mold. For another weird orchid flower look at encyclia cochleata
I've got two of the plants you mentioned, the sonerilla magenta midnight and the Bublophyllum Elizabeth Ann Buckleberry. Hard to find info on the sonerillas. I bought 5 of them recently and the magenta midnight is the only one that isn't taking off.
I've attempted to grow the Tacca Chantrieri from seed several times with no success. So if you do give it a go and manage to make it grow, please let us know what you did. Or if someone here have any tips, I'm all ears.
Greetings Clair from Missouri (USA). Regarding the Hydnora Africana, it is a fungi and stinks terribly. Its common name is Devil's fingers, also known as Clathrus Archeri or octopus stinkhorn, that's native to the Southern Hemisphere. It has a bright red color and tentacle-like arms that grow from a slimy, gelatinous egg. The interior of each arm is covered with a sticky, black substance that contains spores. As it blooms, the fungus has a strong smell, similar to rotting flesh. It won't grow off its host, it's parasitic so you don't want it for a house plant. It's weird that's for sure.
Aha, will she join the dark side of orchids? :D Note of caution: bulbophyllums are often (but by no means always) stinky. The blooms are typically corpse mimics & pollinated by carrion flies. Check out Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis for 'weird'. There are 'cuter' ones like Daisy Chain.
Whenever you say 'children & pets be wary' i always imagine a dog watching your youtube videos and looking upset lol Edit: Oh also I have a few Drosera Alicae, I started them from seed from an etsy seller years ago and they're still smaller than my pinky fingernail lol - but I really neglect them. I just keep them in tupperware with sphagnum moss, I'm using tap water so I should probably switch to distilled, but I think spag does a lot to remove the nastiness from the water.
I found sundews a couple months ago and have wanted one since then. I also do just love nepenthes and they are for sure on my wish list. I do think the black bat plant is so cool. I would love to have one one day. The golden chicken fern makes me feel so uncomfortable to look at.
Please be considerate when buying plants and don't jump on every latest "trend". There are many plant species that are driven to extinction because of poaching. I don't know about these specific plants shown here but keep it in mind anyways.
I sowed 10 Tephrocactus Geometricus seeds about a week ago, and two of them have just sprouted in the last couple of days - I cannot wait to have a big adult of it/them!
I feel like my carnivorous plants are lower maintenance than my normal plants. My butterworts, droseras and Venus fly traps will produce flowers. Drosera seeds are very easy to germinate. Jump in to the carnivorous plant community!
hi Claire!!! it’s always a good day when you post a video :) wonderful and thoughtful content here as always unrelated to this video: i came across a tip that Sean from Only Plants shared regarding his general anthurium care. i remember you lamenting the losses of your few anthurium warocqueanums over the years. i’m sure you’ve tried everything at this point but i thought i’d share anyway just in case. in his video starting at the 13:10 mark, he explains his watering method in conjunction with a sphagnum moss top dressing. i linked it below for you: ruclips.net/video/uJJjZPF7sIo/видео.htmlsi=_1A0GSRNXZgiiyTm best of luck and i really hope you try growing one again soon! keep being an amazing plant parent and human. can’t wait for the next vid!!
I got the Tephrocactus at the conservatory archives about 2 months ago and they had a bunch at that time... but yeah it was 48£ for 2 balls!! not cheap but I am in love with it, they had some 3 ball ones that looked like mickey mouse!!!, I had somebody tell me that she has owned one for 2 years and its now growing the first ball in her care so if that is the common growth pattern I can see why they are selling them for that price...
I have the pregnant onion (but we called it a false sea onion) that I've had for at least 30 years. I'm sure it's not the original bulb.... Because in that time I've moved probably a dozen times, had 6 dogs, 2 cats, 2 babies.... So it was very neglected at times. I had a lot of plants when I was younger (in my 20s) and as I had a family and moved, many were neglected and died. I have 3 or 4 still from back then (a Boston fern, a hibiscus, and the false sea onion.... I thought there was one more, but I can't think of it).... So that tells you this plant is a real survivor!
Your dish washer tricked me. I almost jumped off the couch xD
LOL it tricked me too, I was questioning what alarm was going off in my house!
lol same, I thought it was the microwave was going off
Same here, thought it was my pool pump dying 😂
i thought it was my plants' humidifier running out of water 😂
drosera rotundifolia are actually found all over the uk too! i acc recently went to a peat bog in scotland and found some
Very neat! I like very basic, very green plants, ones that thrive without special care, but these are cool to see and learn about! ❤
Yes Elizabeth Ann this has been on my wishlist for a year!
We were just talking about the types of sundew in Western Alaskan tundra in my botany class. We went out there for field work and they are TINY out there but if you look close you'll see them. So cute! Drosera rotundifolia, the one you mentioned, and also Drosera anglica grow where temps during winter drop to as low as -20 to -60 Fahrenheit (-28 to -50 Celsius) for days on end and there is very little light until the spring and summer. They bounce back! A lot of people here carnivorous plants and they thing hot tropical climate, but that's not always the case.
thanks for doing another episode of weirdest plants, I always look forward to your videos.
I was waiting for at least one orchid... and there it is :-) Thank you for sharing.
Oh! The pregnant onion! I always wanted that plant, but couldn't find it.... well, until a month ago.... One of my local garden centres was selling them for £3.99. Got 2, just in case....😜
And that "chicken fern" really intrigues me! I WANT IT! *(added to the wish list at #1!)
I have a golden chicken fern!! Just got it a few weeks ago so it's still just a little floof ball🤞They are much less expensive in Canada.. around $40- $70 CAD. Love the weird plant videos! 💚
Good vid! Your list proves that beautiful & unusual plants can sometimes be really inexpensive. Thanks for sharing Claire!
The crassula connection is the pair of leaves fused together, succulents and for example baby's necklace or string of buttons leaves together. Love your videos ty! ❤ From USA Kentucky. 😊
That is the best looking Jade plant I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing that one.
I love those videos of weird houseplants ❤
As for the Sundew in the beginning: be aware that a lot of carnivorous plants actually need a winter break so they stay healthy. There are also a lot of carnivorous plants in our latitude. For example I found a few Sundews in the Estonian bogs.
What I love to do with those plants: I take a big bucket and build a bog pot, where I plant Sarracenias, bog orchids and moss and put it on my balcony. It lives there year round.
There are shops in Germany that sell Sonerilas, also with good care tips. For example Jungle Leaves
I have grown pregnant onion as a house plant, and it's very easy.
Love these. So fun! Always fun to own one or two cool and funky plants :P
Drosera rotoundifolia is native from where I live in France but it is very endangered and protected. When in doubt always get plants from a trusted horticulturist and not from the wild.
Amazing video!!!! Please don’t wait a year to make another one!! 🙏😂
Ceropegia bosseri is a really cool looking succulent. It basically looks like a spiky dragon's tail and it's a very dark almost black color. It has these really cool flowers too.
Wooo! So excited for another upload from you! 😍
Part 3! That's such a cool series and perfect before going to bed 😄😄
❤'' If you've got people that might be prone to nibling in your house'' 😂😂 1st prize for describing children in 1 sentance 😅
Love your videos! Definitely hot here, with temperatures in 100’s!!🥵
This was such a fun and interesting series, I’m definitely going to get that orchid..
Perfect timing. Just what I needed to keep me occupied while i make some orders for my small business 😊
“Lose their beautiful jugs” 😂😂😂
I absolutely love these videos! I want all the weird plants!
Ooo that jade needs a pruning too! So fun!! I love those beautiful jugs 😂 you say “Squidge” over, I say, gimme a “Squdge” a hug! Cute!
Oh yes! I do have one of those, 2 jades in fact 😂
Watching another planty channel, they have a Tephrocactus geometricus and said she waits for the little balls to get a tiny bit deflated, the design on them gets more pronounced when they’re needing watering
I adore the twisty tongue leaves of that Monstera Unniiae!
We’ve got the Black bat flower plant here in Canada rn, I bought one but it didn’t appreciate my care 🤷♀️ leaf after leaf crisped and died, apparently from lack of humidity? I don’t have a cabinet to put it in … yet
Love these kind of video's ❤
As far as weird plants go, here's a suggestion: Dracula simia 😉
I used to have the chick fern Cibotium barometz, is actually very common and easy to grow here in Thailand.
Pleas do manzanita, it’s not an indoor plant but the bark is red, and it sheds that bark to a green bark, the flowers are pink or white and are shaped like bells. The berries can be used to make cider as well.
Me, a South African, having never seen any of these plants native to South Africa before 🤣
The stranger things plant would be hard to grow inside since it feeds off other plants. I guess you would have to plant other plants with it as sacrificial plants 🤔
My family and I went to a summer resort here in mid/northen Sweden, and when we went to fishing in local lake, I found bunch of sundew on a decaying log by the lake. Now I have a small one growing in my cabinet! I didn't know you could find CP in Sweden, I was very pleasantly surprised!
Yay! Thanks for featuring the Hydnora africana! I'm the opposite of you with this plant. I love how weird and bizarre it looks, and those roots are so cool! I think it would be incredibly difficult to keep as a house plant since it is parasitic. You'd have to keep a host plant as well. I don't need to have one, I'm just happy knowing this bizarre-o plant exists.😃
Always enjoy the weird houseplant series! 💚
I want to make a big garden with carnivorous plants and would definitely add a sundew
Tephrocactus is the same genus as pine cone cactus and paper spine cactus. I love their growth habits and all of them are on my to buy list.
I got a couple of pine cone cactus at a big box store
I have a drosera venusta which also grows in clusters and i have it growing in lots of direct sun and only use rainwater - it dried out once and lots of the clusters died and now i’m left with two haha but apart from this no issues growing and it grows fast for me. I feed all my carnivorous plants with bug bits that are in the form of fish flakes and all are happy :)
Love these video's ❤
Suggestion for weird plants: Dracula simia 😉
Sometimes places that sell dart frog supplies have sonerilas! Also dart frog people in general often have rare terrarium plants and might sell cuttings
Love these videos - thanks for sharing! There's a few crassula that have a columnar form where the leaves grow all the way around the stem like that - string of buttons, for example (crassula perforata). I really like all the common symmetrical crassulas like soButtons, pagoda and watch-chain. If you're not familiar there's some amazing images online
Check out Kleinia stapeliiformis or common name Pickle Plant. I saw these over a year ago and had to buy it. I'm basically a tropical buff but for the pickle plant I can make an exception. Love your videos Claire. They're always so bubbly. 😊
Hello. Love your videos. I have question non related to this topic. I want to buy Calathea, but I dont know which one is best for beginers. Thanks in advance ❤
my new weird houseplant is Brazilian rain tree. i just germinated 4 seeds and they are growing strong :) cant wait to work with them :)
I can't remember if you covered this, but I'd recommend alocasia plumbae (flying squid alocasia) for your next weird list, unless you already discussed it. Also, for those based in Europe, I'd ask about sourcing if purchasing the sundew featured as your first choice. It would probably be fine, but since plant poaching is an issue generally, I'd want to make sure that no one was pilfering local marshes to re-sell plants. Thanks for covering plant weirdos! I'm enjoying your series.
I love that Drosera! Great choices overall!
3:11 I’m danish too, and it grows natively around here too 😊
That so funny, I said “stranger things plant” right before you said stranger things 😂 those are so cool
I had a Tacca Chantrieri. They come in black, green, or white. They call them the "bat" plant. The balls that hang down (generally about 8 or 9 balls) and those are the seeds. They grow very well in Florida. They need a great deal of humidity. When the seeds get are dry, I used to just push them into the sandy dirt. I had them all around my pool. I have tried growing them in Colorado, where I live now, and they do not grow here. They are small, not happy. But if you have a greenhouse, you will succeed.
Harli G has a tephrocactus geometricus. It’s adorable!
Bat plants are generally available here in Florida. I had one 30 years ago when I was growing Orchids.
Your jade plant can be used as a bonsai. It’s actually ready with the long stems.
Hi from my South Florida garden Claire!❣️
Wow so many amazing plants 😍Thank you for this video! And we have to know, what did Ross say about the plant? 👀
Bulbophylums as a whole make for weird and wonderful & usually easy care! Paph. Orchids aka lady slipper orchids almost look carnivorous! ❤
Check out the life saver plant. I watched your other 2 videos. The blue oil fern is my favorite plant. It was pricey, but I enjoy seeing it so much every day. I believe it was worth every penny I paid for it.
Have four on your list. Most are recent. The Droseria I think will need a winter dormancy. I'd suggest looking for some that are just as nice and are from more tropical areas. The Pregnant Onion I have had - have a small one now. Grew them big and had them flower. Never noticed and smell issues. I look at it as a novelty plant. Once it has bloomed I tend to loss interest in the plant. Have the Tephrocacus - acually have three varieties. Only issue is the the 'balls' seem to break off easily. So growing one to the size of some you showed images of can't be easy. On the other hand you get lots of propogations. Do have the Chicken Fern - have had it about six weeks now and still waiting for it to start growing.
As for plants to look at I'd suggest the Editholea Grandis. It is truelly wierd, but does have a nice looking flower. Just don't smell it.
Omg that jade is gawjus all the branch’s but a bit baldy 😮 needs a lot of pruning 😂
Tephrocactus are in the family Opuntioideae and are related to prickly pears. Most Opuntioideae show that segmented growth pattern. It’s pretty much the same things as prickly pears except prickly pears form flat pads, whereas Tephrocactus form more rounded stem segments. They grow really fast just like prickly pears, but past a certain size they start falling apart. That’s how they reproduce in nature.
Get them from a cactus nursery. Tephrocactus are super common. There’s nothing rare about them. A plant shop will overcharge you.
£40 is ludicrous for two small se gents btw. It’s more like £10…
Ooooh i love that jade 😍
I have the drosera rotundifolia ( and many other droseras ). It regulary sprouts spontainious from live spagnum . So maybe if you grow some of your spagnum for the moss poles in a bowl with rainwater you'll get some for free. Bugbites is fishfood. Be carefull feeding them with that and dont use to much or it will mold. For another weird orchid flower look at encyclia cochleata
I've got two of the plants you mentioned, the sonerilla magenta midnight and the Bublophyllum Elizabeth Ann Buckleberry. Hard to find info on the sonerillas. I bought 5 of them recently and the magenta midnight is the only one that isn't taking off.
The weird plants videos are fun 👍 Isn’t Mother Nature incredible 😀🇨🇦
I've attempted to grow the Tacca Chantrieri from seed several times with no success. So if you do give it a go and manage to make it grow, please let us know what you did. Or if someone here have any tips, I'm all ears.
Yep, i knew them all, by the way bulbophillum Elisabeth ann is a pripary hybride.
Old Mac Donalds had a farm
22:50
LOLOL @ "Beautiful jugs" - love this series....
I’ve got the birds nest thick fern . And it’s one of the most easiest plants I have
Greetings Clair from Missouri (USA). Regarding the Hydnora Africana, it is a fungi and stinks terribly. Its common name is Devil's fingers, also known as Clathrus Archeri or octopus stinkhorn, that's native to the Southern Hemisphere. It has a bright red color and tentacle-like arms that grow from a slimy, gelatinous egg. The interior of each arm is covered with a sticky, black substance that contains spores. As it blooms, the fungus has a strong smell, similar to rotting flesh. It won't grow off its host, it's parasitic so you don't want it for a house plant. It's weird that's for sure.
I don’t like Jade Plants but this one is really cool.
Aha, will she join the dark side of orchids? :D
Note of caution: bulbophyllums are often (but by no means always) stinky. The blooms are typically corpse mimics & pollinated by carrion flies. Check out Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis for 'weird'. There are 'cuter' ones like Daisy Chain.
That cactus has balls!
Whenever you say 'children & pets be wary' i always imagine a dog watching your youtube videos and looking upset lol
Edit: Oh also I have a few Drosera Alicae, I started them from seed from an etsy seller years ago and they're still smaller than my pinky fingernail lol - but I really neglect them. I just keep them in tupperware with sphagnum moss, I'm using tap water so I should probably switch to distilled, but I think spag does a lot to remove the nastiness from the water.
Love ur plants😄
We got a bat plant in the office, hasn’t flowered yet 🤞🏼
Another weird cactus i have in my collection is mammilaria plumosa and it is actualy really cute
If you don't want to feed your carnivorous plants bugs, HiThruve makes a liquid carnivorous plant food, that I use.
Hello love your channel. Love this video. Love your hair.
I found sundews a couple months ago and have wanted one since then. I also do just love nepenthes and they are for sure on my wish list. I do think the black bat plant is so cool. I would love to have one one day. The golden chicken fern makes me feel so uncomfortable to look at.
Hi Claire
I'd love to see a video about the wirdest and coolest way to style commun plants! Like your new jade plant😊
I find these native where I live all the time!
The onion looks like it had alien parasites trying to break out of it, and the vulva plant is just creepy 😮
The black bat flower needs really high humidity to keep the leaves pristine
Please be considerate when buying plants and don't jump on every latest "trend". There are many plant species that are driven to extinction because of poaching. I don't know about these specific plants shown here but keep it in mind anyways.
Fun fun fun
A golden chicken fern for 100-150 pounds is crazy!😩 Here in the U.S. you can get one for $40-$70 dollars.🙃 Order it from a U.S. seller!
31:30 I think that is you basic Australian tree fern it looks like
Baka naman 😁
If you need to buy live food for carnivorous plants, you can buy live flightless fruit Flys sold as reptile food.
I sowed 10 Tephrocactus Geometricus seeds about a week ago, and two of them have just sprouted in the last couple of days - I cannot wait to have a big adult of it/them!
Btw there are a couple more carnivorous plants native to Europe and even the UK
I feel like my carnivorous plants are lower maintenance than my normal plants. My butterworts, droseras and Venus fly traps will produce flowers. Drosera seeds are very easy to germinate. Jump in to the carnivorous plant community!
hi Claire!!! it’s always a good day when you post a video :) wonderful and thoughtful content here as always
unrelated to this video: i came across a tip that Sean from Only Plants shared regarding his general anthurium care. i remember you lamenting the losses of your few anthurium warocqueanums over the years. i’m sure you’ve tried everything at this point but i thought i’d share anyway just in case. in his video starting at the 13:10 mark, he explains his watering method in conjunction with a sphagnum moss top dressing. i linked it below for you:
ruclips.net/video/uJJjZPF7sIo/видео.htmlsi=_1A0GSRNXZgiiyTm
best of luck and i really hope you try growing one again soon! keep being an amazing plant parent and human. can’t wait for the next vid!!
I got the Tephrocactus at the conservatory archives about 2 months ago and they had a bunch at that time... but yeah it was 48£ for 2 balls!! not cheap but I am in love with it, they had some 3 ball ones that looked like mickey mouse!!!, I had somebody tell me that she has owned one for 2 years and its now growing the first ball in her care so if that is the common growth pattern I can see why they are selling them for that price...
rotundifolia will survive down to -60 and it is not a house plant! they need to be outside!
I think @wildfern has that Elizabeth Ann orchid...
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I will say it again: Geogenanthus Poeppigii
Beautiful jugs 😂
Cue people poaching these plants. Especially ones based in 3rd world countries. RIP everyone trying to grow those crassula's as well.
I need that wine plant ! 🪴 oh my goodness. On my list now .