Flowering of Drosera cistiflora

 I have 2 kinds of Drosera cistiflora to grow. One is red flower, the other is pink. I have kept both for more than 2 years but no flowering. Even if the buds appear, the plants usually go dormant before flowering at my place.

 But both plants have succeeded in flowering this year. It's wonderful! This is probably because we've been having cold spring this year and the plants could keep growing themselves until now.

First pink flower opened 30 March. And the red one was supposed to follow very soon. But as the weather had been so bad, it didn't open until 11 April.

Turions of Utricularia japonica

 It's been warm recently, and finally cold winter seems to have gone. Then turions of Utricularia japonica in my cultivation have started floating and forming small leaves. Hopefully spring will be coming very soon.

 They are originated from Niigata prefecture Japan as my friend living there sent them to me exactly a year ago. I could keep the plant growing with no trouble last year and hopefully this year too.

These photos below are U. japonica in a growing term last year. It is said this bladderworts is a natural hybrid between U. australis and U. macrorhiza. The appearance doesn't so much differ from U. australis but the shape of the turion is round while the one of U. australis is elliptical. So they can be distinguished only in winter in my cultivation. 

These are the turions of U. australis native to Shiga prefecture Japan. They look like almonds.