Sunday, 24 May 2020

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.