halloween hostess bouquet
What do you take to the Halloween party when you know the hosts will have everything taken care of?
Here’s my solution for tonight: a bouquet of carnivorous plant pitchers from the backyard bog garden. Shown here are two Sarrecenia leucophyllas, S. alata, and the hybrid S. Judith Hindle.
It was either those or a bloom of the stinking corpse flower, which unfortunately is between flowers. Besides, it’s probably better etiquette, even on Halloween, to show up with a bouquet of pretty but slightly creepy pitchers than a mammoth blossom that smells like carrion…
October 31 2009 03:51 pm | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: Halloween • pitcher plants • sarracenia
Ryan on 01 Nov 2009 at 12:58 am #
Amazing!!
I wish you were a regular guest at my home!
Ryan
ryan on 01 Nov 2009 at 8:21 am #
Very cool, and Halloween appropriate. Do the flowers last long as a cut?
lostlandscape on 01 Nov 2009 at 9:17 pm #
The are actually the leaves of the plants and they should last lots longer than most flowers. In the wild, collection of pitchers for the florist’s trade is listed as being a reason for why some species are dwindling. But the massive habitat loss—97.5% by at least one estimate—is definitely reason #1.
Alice Joyce on 02 Nov 2009 at 5:07 pm #
Well, James, I for one would be over the moon if you showed up at my door with these ;-]
Steve on 06 Nov 2009 at 3:51 am #
Yeah, just keep the carniverous stuff small, James. I have navigated through life without being eaten so far. Lord knows how that happened.
Pam on 07 Nov 2009 at 8:52 am #
Hello,
I stumbled upon this blog while searching for images of Lomandra longifolia Breeze and discovered that you and I share a love of spiky plants like lomandra and NZ Red flax. I also posted about scarey plants for Halloween, except I chose the Bat Plant and the Venus Flytrap.
Nice blog!