Tag Archives: nepenthes

Thursday is Resource Day

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

The first week after two big back-to-back shows (one of which was purely the Czarina’s play) gets a bit crazy, especially when you look over the back lot and realize that it’s starting to resemble a location set for a … Continue reading →

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Ah, Nepenthes

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Nepenthes pitcher plants are on my mind as of the last week, and not just because I’m researching plans for a new greenhouse. (The Czarina offered last year to build a new Nepenthes greenhouse, and not just so she can … Continue reading →

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Discovery Days: The Final Assessment

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Last weekend, the folks at the Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park were considerate enough to invite the Triffid Ranch to display plants at its regular Discovery Days event on reptiles and other critters. This year, the “other … Continue reading →

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Absolute Surefire Steps to Kill Your Venus Flytrap: Step 7

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Curious about the context? Check out the introduction. Some of the content in this series appeared, in much shorter form, in Gothic Beauty magazine. Step 7: Keep it jammed in with other carnivores. If you’ve been keeping up with the … Continue reading →

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Absolute Surefire Steps to Kill Your Venus Flytrap: Step 6

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Curious about the context? Check out the introduction. Some of the content in this series appeared, in much shorter form, in Gothic Beauty magazine. Step 6: Feed it hamburger. Were I to assume that the publishing business will be in … Continue reading →

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Things to do in Dallas when you’re dead

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

The rest of October is going to be relatively quiet for the Triffid Ranch, but things start livening up in November. Specifically, four weeks from this coming Saturday, come out to the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas’s Fair … Continue reading →

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More background is always a good thing

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

By now, thanks to the wonder of what I call “news churn,” just about everyone on the planet not obsessed with Kim Kardashian’s wedding has heard about the bird-eating Nepenthes in the UK. The Sun ran with it, the BBC … Continue reading →

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Information, Even If You Don’t Want It

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

Without fail, whenever I volunteer that I raise carnivorous plants, I get one of two responses, usually one right after the other. The first is, always, “Oh, so have you seen Little Shop of Horrors?”, and I weep that nobody … Continue reading →

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Mr. Hanky visits the Triffid Ranch

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Spend more than a few weeks studying carnivorous plants, and you see that the situations and boundaries get a bit flexible. Plants in general really don’t care where they get their nitrogen and phosphorus, and many carnivores don’t care if … Continue reading →

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“The garden hooligans are loose!”

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Of particular note in the news from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is that Dame Helen Mirren has a new Nepenthes cultivar (of the hybrid Nepenthes spathulata x spectabilis) named after her, courtesy of Borneo Exotics. This, of course, goes … Continue reading →

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