And closeups of a couple flowers:
The Asian pitchers don't go dormant in winter, but they do stop pitchering. Mine are just starting to produce new pitchers:
The most common question I get about these strange plants is, "Do you have to feed them?" I do feed the indoor ones. Pity the hapless insect that finds its way into my house. It will be stunned with a rolled-up newspaper and popped into a Nepenthes pitcher faster than you can say, "Dinner time!" The plants that are outside catch plenty of their own food. Some of my larger pitchers will be filled to the top with insect carcasses by the end of the summer. One of the first things I learned when I started growing them was, Never look inside the pitchers! You don't want to see what goes on in there, but it would make a great arthropod horror movie.
If you're one of the few people who thinks all this is cool rather than disgusting, I recommend you get a copy of The Savage Garden, which will tell you all you need to know about growing carnivorous plants:
And if you're ready to grow some of your own, I recommend Sarracenia Northwest, an online carnivorous plant nursery based here in Oregon: http://www.cobraplant.com/cmd.php?af=382064
Field Trip, Part 2: Ocoee, FL
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Leaving Weeki Wachee, Joe and I drove on a four-lane divided highway that
cuts through or comes very close to some of Central Florida’s smaller
towns. Our ...
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