sundew

Drosera capensis 'alba'

Cool banner Cal!

I had to look up more info about this one, what an unusual plant! Makes for a beautiful banner from its weird manner of "eating"! Very pretty indeed.

Lovely banner Cal!

So delicate a bloom!

Great job finding a crop of your photo of this fascinating plant that incorporates enough features to give one an idea of the whole plant.

Thank you for your comments & thumbs! Sorry I'm behind the 8 ball again.

This little gem is part of a group of carnivores:
Sundews, flytraps, & pitcher plants (Sarracenia & Nepenthes -not shown).
Just 2" pots, but will pot up as they grow, especially the pitchers as they
can get quite large. They will eventually need to live in the greenhouse.
But the sundews & flytraps can stay in the house.

They all live in a bright south facing window in dishes of R/O water on 2 "lazy Susans".

We use a humidifier when necessary.

The one next to it is even smaller, and has a pale lavender daisy-like bloom.

She sprays them with very dilute Liquinox Grow once a week to augment their diet
of ants & flies.

They are so cute!!

This banner looks like one of those whirly-gig sprinklers at the first glance.

purpleinopp said: They are so cute!!
This banner looks like one of those whirly-gig sprinklers at the first glance.

If I had the time, would love to make sprinklers that would mimic me waving a
hose wand around.
But good to do it manually, as I see things I would otherwise have missed,
e.g. little frogs that pop out of their pot as if to say, "Hey! Watch it!", volunteer seedlings, & interesting insects, as well as plants that may need special attention.

Deadly beautiful! Well, deadly to flies; beautiful to us! Cool banner.