Borneo: New Life, New Plants
Aug 6, 2011 0:47:19 GMT -10
Post by twoton on Aug 6, 2011 0:47:19 GMT -10
"Just when I thought I was out....they pull me back in!" Michael Corleone from The Godfather III kept going through my head as I moseyed slowly through Amos Yu's nursery for nepenthes and orchids (and ferns and bromeliads and a thousand other things) here in Kuching, Sarawak, my new home (detailed picture report about the reasons for our move here).
Four years have gone by since I decided to move from Taiwan to Borneo, and three years since I sold my last plant. And despite all my pleas not to start nepping again, and instead just admire the plants in the forests here, I just couldn't resist the call of the wild: the duoble-barreled assault of wild nepenthes and masterfully grown cultivated ones in Amos' nursery were the kiss of death for all my noble resolutions.
So here they are, the six neps I bought (the green amp was a gift - seems that's considered a weed around these parts)
Cheers, and I hope you like them, even if they're rather plain lowland species....
The Haul at Amos' place
Purple squat raff
Tricolor amp
Albomarginata
Bical
Green amp
Speckled hooker
There's also a small pot with speckled amps which I didn't bother to photograph :-)
This was their first destination in the front yard, but the shade netting above them turned out to be to narrow for the morning sun...
...so I moved them onto this professional plant bench under a pergola in the back :-)
Oh, and a few bonus plants from the nearby jungle. Any ID?
And finally, one for the Stink Fruit Connoisseurs, straight from Serian, Durian Capital of Borneo (Man, I LOVE THAT FRUIT!! )
Four years have gone by since I decided to move from Taiwan to Borneo, and three years since I sold my last plant. And despite all my pleas not to start nepping again, and instead just admire the plants in the forests here, I just couldn't resist the call of the wild: the duoble-barreled assault of wild nepenthes and masterfully grown cultivated ones in Amos' nursery were the kiss of death for all my noble resolutions.
So here they are, the six neps I bought (the green amp was a gift - seems that's considered a weed around these parts)
Cheers, and I hope you like them, even if they're rather plain lowland species....
The Haul at Amos' place
Purple squat raff
Tricolor amp
Albomarginata
Bical
Green amp
Speckled hooker
There's also a small pot with speckled amps which I didn't bother to photograph :-)
This was their first destination in the front yard, but the shade netting above them turned out to be to narrow for the morning sun...
...so I moved them onto this professional plant bench under a pergola in the back :-)
Oh, and a few bonus plants from the nearby jungle. Any ID?
And finally, one for the Stink Fruit Connoisseurs, straight from Serian, Durian Capital of Borneo (Man, I LOVE THAT FRUIT!! )
