Tuesday 17 May 2022
Vft Schuppensteil - Upright Red Traps
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I got some unnamed Venus flytraps a year or two ago. These were cheap as it was a mix of varieties and the names had been lost. There was ...
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Sunday 3 April 2022
Zea diploperennis - perennial corn ancestor
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There are a few wild ancestors of modern corn ( Zea mays ) that are still around. Most don't look hugely like the corn that we are used...
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Tuesday 29 March 2022
Giant dandelions - the supervegetable
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A few years ago I started trying to breed a larger variety of dandelion ( Taraxacum officionale ). I can't quite remember why. It was ...
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Friday 25 March 2022
Drosera capensis Hercules
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I was given a small plant of Drosera capensis 'Hercules' by an extremely generous person. As far as I know there are very few of t...
Friday 18 March 2022
Micro woolly dwarf tomato progress
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I wrote an earlier blog post about crossing a micro dwarf tomato with a high anthocyanin tomato with angora leaf. I am not great at cross p...
Friday 11 March 2022
Venus Flytrap - DCXL
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Late last year I bought a DCXL Venus Flytrap. I have not been growing it for very long, and my plant has not yet demonstrated its true pote...
Saturday 5 March 2022
How I grow maidenhair ferns
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Back in early 2016 I got a little fern to keep in my office. Maidenhair ferns don't cope with direct sunlight, they don't love extr...
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Monday 28 February 2022
Venus flytrap leaf pulling
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Venus Flytraps are reportedly very simple to propagate using leaf pullings. A leaf pulling is similar to a cutting, but a small part of the...
Thursday 24 February 2022
Cambridge Rival strawberries Australia
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For over a dozen years I have been trying to find somewhere to by a "Cambridge Rival" strawberry plant. I have heard so much abou...
Friday 18 February 2022
Tiger fern
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I recently got a lovely variegated tiger fern. Tiger fern is a variegated variety of the Boston fern. There aren't a huge number of di...
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