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Flowering Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
This is a nice sight I'm enjoying at the moment: Drosophyllum lusitanicumin full bloom on the terrace. I am not sure if the coming dark season will allow the plant to produce seed. There are not many...
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Growing Heliamphora outdoors: an update.
It's an interesting time for outdoors Heliamphora right now. As you may know, if you follow this blog on a regular basis, I'm trying to grow Heliamphora in the garden since late March. The plants have...
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Darlingtonia californica under the full (autumn) sun.
Darlingtonia californica is another plant that is doing well on my terrace right now. It is one of my all time favorite carnivorous plants but so far, I have always had mixed results with it. When I...
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Last herping of the year: a tribe of Fire salamanders and a couple of newts.
A week ago, I spent a few hours in a forest not far from my hometown where I know I could observe a nice fire salamanders population. This nice stroll was arguably my last herping of the year. I'll...
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Is it really Stapelia flavirostris?
I received a cutting of this Stapeliad about one year and a half ago under the name Stapelia flavirostris. It has just opened a very nice flower a couple of days ago. However, looking at pictures of S....
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Hoya linearis in full bloom.
This is one of the beauties of these last days in my conservatory and one of the best fragrances I experienced this year, a sophisticated one that I can't really describe. I bought this niceHoya...
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A magical meeting with Syrmaticus reevesii, the Reeves's pheasant.
Last week, while I was hiking in a forest near from my home town searching for fire salamanders, I stumbled onto some strange silhouettes that were staring at me at the end of a path...For a moment, I...
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Some nice sundews growing outside.
The weather is just perfect at the moment for subtropical Drosera. Here is a short selection of plants that are doing well at the moment.Drosera pulchellaDrosera scorpioidesAnother pygmy. I...
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A nice meeting in Ghent botanical garden.
Last satursday, with a few friends, we went to a meeting organized by'Drosera', a Belgium Carnivorous Plant society. The event was held in Ghent Botanical Garden less than an hour from my hometown. The...
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Two more flowering Nepenthes pervillei!
You may remember that one of my 2014 seedgrown Nepenthes pervillei is blooming. The flower scape is developing really slowly and two months later it has barely started to open its flower.That's a male...
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A foretaste of my Trus Madi Nepenthes lowii field report
Later in the week, I will post a field report on the iconic Nepenthes lowii I observed on Mount Trus Madi during my 2016 Borneo trip. The pitcher below was one of the nicest I saw on my first day on...
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A beautiful (unidentified) orchid from Gunung Trus Madi.
This is one the most elegant orchids I admired in the course of my Borneo trip. This plant was growing as an epiphyte on some trees of Mount Trus Madi. I think they belong to the large genus...
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Follow me on Trus Madi to see Nepenthes lowii .
This is the Trus MadiNepenthes lowiifield report I promised a couple of days ago. Embarking on that Borneo trip in spring 2016, one of the carnivorous plants I wanted to see the most was that...
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A delicate (unknown) orchid from Gunung Trus Madi.
This is one of the numerous beautiful orchids I saw on Gunung Trus Madi last year. It was a diminutive species that was growing on a small tree trunk along the main path. No idea what this particular...
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A glimpse of the Scarce copper, Lycaena virgaureae.
Lycaena virgaurea, the Scarce copper, is a beautiful species of butterfly I'm always looking to observe when given the chance. I usually manage to see a few of them every year during my family...
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My female Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum).
Just for the pleasure of it, and because they looked great lately, here a few shots of 'Groot' and 'Alita', respectively an albinos and a wild form of Ambystoma mexicanum, the famous Axolotl. I keep 4...
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A thriving population of Sempervirum tectorum, the common houseleek.
Sempervirum tectorum is one of those plants that virtually everyone knows. The houseleek as it is also called can be found in many gardens and because of that, one can feel it is a boring sight. But...
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Some last 2017 Gymnadenia rhellicani.
I know I have posted quite a few pictures of this lovely orchid this year on a couple of occasions already but I can't help to share another last gallery. While I was browsing the photographs I took...
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A busy carpenter bee.
Some of my favorite Hymenopteran are the carpenter beesfrom the genusXylocopa that can be observed in many regions of the world. Apparently, there are up to 500 species of Xylocopa. Although I know...
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Another Heterometrus from Borneo ?
Scorpions are one of those Arthropoda I really like but, at the same time, I never took the time to document myself properly on their biology and ecology. In the course of my trip in Borneo on...
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