I adore my droseras. I think it’s the sparkly flamboyance of them that really appeals to my inner showgirl. So I was feeling quietly despondent at the thought of them failing. They were starting to look faded and droopy, like a showgirl at the end of her career and I wasn’t sure what they needed to un-tarnish the sequins and bring the shimmy back.
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Sparkly Bug Eater Update
New Book!
My book has arrived!
CCM ordered ‘The Savage Garden‘ by Peter D’Amato for me what seems like years ago, which in reality was only a few weeks, but in this age of instant gratification is an eternity!
Blah blah blah, years, weeks, instant gratification, who cares! I got a new book! About plants that eat things!
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This is why Kindles and Kobos and e-readers of a similar ilk will never, ever, EVER cause the death of the book.
The joy of holding a brand new book in your hands, smelling it, flipping through the pages, the wind in my hair from the aforementioned flipping, putting the first crease in the spine, the anticipation of the knowledge you know lies between the covers.
There is nothing like it!
And this is before I’ve even read a word.
Introducing the Porch Garden
My porch – or conservatory when we’re stroking it’s ego – is the home of my favourite and most special ornamental plants. Some were gifts, some were impulse buys, some I know the name and provenance and others are a complete mystery. On nice days I sit out there and talk to them, and on days like today when the ‘cyclone that isn’t a cyclone just really crappy weather’ hits, I go out there because I have cabin fever!
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Seduction in the Porch Garden
It amazes me how adept my North American Pitcher Plant Sarracenia X Areolata is at seducing it’s next feed. All I can say is that the bugs in my area are a bunch of tarts!
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