It was one of the coldest days in May today for the south east coast of Australia.
So how could I make sure the plants in the hot house are going to be warm enough.
I am  using ( apart from the heat tube)  pool cover material that I bought from a pool shop  to help keep the warmth in.
Just tying it down to the top of the polyhouse. When I went into the shop I told them
about my need and they made a cover for the polyhouse but my measurements were wrong.
Too small and I had to cut the cover into sheets.
I've made sure that all the heat loving plants are close to the heat tube this time, It's looking good.
 As it's getting cooler the cold loving nepenthes have produced some beautiful pitchers.
I'll post a couple , one back in april. My nepenthes vogelli gave me it's first upper pitcher ,
very beautiful.

Here is a picture of my Nepenthes veitchii x Hurrelliana

I bought it from Gotcha plants a few years ago , back in 2017. They had a stall at Lindmar open Garden. John had told me that he had had a x hurrelliana amongst those for sale. I searched through
them , finally finding the label, there wasn't a pitcher on it but it's leaves were thick different to the others for sale.

Look at that wide peristome. I love the colour.

Rain and more rain

 Well the rain is and was needed.
 Cyclone Uesi is filling up the water table and the dams.
I was thinking before we might have water restrictions.
I'm wondering how long the outside nepenthes can deal with the soaking though
There are plenty of them that flourish in this weather.
I'll place an older photo on , no photos today. the rain is howling down.13.02.20
Today is fine , lovely day. `15.02.20
This top photo is today. The two underneath , a couple of years ago.
My two nepenthes mirabilis are now putting on new pitchers . I grew them from seedlings.
I think they are the cairns nepenthes mirabilis.

 

It's raining

I'm so glad It's now raining thank God.
We've been safe from fire this summer season , but a couple of days there on a weekend
the entire island was bathed , surrounded by smoke, so much so it looked like it was on fire.
I'm so glad that most of australia are now getting much needed rain.
We actually reached 39 degrees celsius in brisbane hot and dry , it was appalling.
During that time it was difficult to keep my nepenthes humid enough.
I placed an extra large bucket of wet peat moss inside the poly house  beside the low land plants to try to help.