Spring is waking up the bog garden! 🌱 Tiny new rosettes of sundew (Drosera) are emerging from the wet moss, unfurling their delicate leaves after winter dormancy. Each little spoon-shaped leaf will soon be covered in glistening sticky droplets — nature's most elegant insect trap. It's always such a rewarding sight to spot these miniature carnivores coming back to life.

De lente wekt de moerasbak tot leven! 🌱 Kleine nieuwe rozetten van zonnedauw (Drosera) komen tevoorschijn uit het natte mos, na hun winterrust. Elk klein lepelvormig blaadje zal al snel bedekt zijn met glinsterende kleverige druppeltjes — een van de meest elegante insectenvallen in de natuur. Het is altijd een bijzonder moment om deze minuscule vleesetende plantjes te zien ontwaken.

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Drosera anglica “British Columbia” is flowering again!
For some reason the temperate versions have been a bit more reluctant to bloom for me (the tropicals are still recovering from soil issues so also not blooming yet…) but this form seems a bit more willing.
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One of the Drosera auriculata in bloom. Will it set seeds this time? Unsure, this particular one doesn’t seem very willing to do so…but since it grew with no issues and no burned shoot tips I have high hopes for daughter tubers at least.
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Another highlight today, still small but growing fairly well: Drosera gigantea! It earns its name when mature, making many-branching almost treelike growth exceeding 3 feet tall, and inch-plus tubers that can be nearly 3 feet below ground. One of the few tuberous species that also really prefers the soil staying slightly moist in dormancy, one reason the tuber goes so deep as to avoid desiccation.
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Missed the first, but not the second: Drosera pulchella “orange flower, red center.”
Pygmies have been giving a lot of trouble the past couple years, but a few have been stable even with repotting. This is one of the happiest.
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Back in bloom: Drosera cistiflora!
The spectacular South African species that sports the largest flower in the genus, this cream-colored form has bloomed for the second year in a row. I had so hoped the other pot keeping pace with it would follow suit, but that bud seems to have aborted…though I still hold hopes for salmon and purple if they start climbing soon.
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Drosera menziesii starting to grow up past the first shelf lights. Hoping that this time it’ll flower again so a proper video highlight can be recorded for it…but at the rate they’re going I’m pretty sure that at the least a couple tubers might be able to go into the shop when they return to dormancy.

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Drosera paleacea “true species” from @insectsinside_nursery
Going through and doing a full repot of all the remaining pygmy sundews due to what turned out to be an obnoxiously tannin-heavy peat bale in the last round. Yes, repotting; they haven’t produced gemmae due to that soil so I have to risk bare-rooting pygmies. Will I lose some? Probably, but some of these including my current remaining paleacea have done it before so they can do it again. The trick is trying to retain as much of the little hair-like roots intact as possible and gently dropping them down into a hole in the new soil, and watering in well. With any luck, they sulk for about 2 weeks, then throw out a new root and bounce back. Then hopefully they produce either a late gemmae crop or make it through summer to do so next year. And maybe also bounce back soon enough to give some spring flowers.
This particular species is one of a handful I’m particularly glad is still around, as it’s quite rare in cultivation. They’re large for a pygmy, over an inch across, with semi-upright leaves kind of similar to scorpioides.

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