Sarracenia Ritchie Bell Rhapidophyllum As summer arrives

As summer arrives

These euphorbias never make much more than spindly container specimens

but considerably faster

and Podophyllum difforme is one of the stars

all of our seedlings have flowered purple

Sarracenia Ritchie Bell Rhapidophyllum As summer arrivesSarracenia 'Ritchie Bell' is the culmination of the pitcher plant breeding efforts of the late Rob Gardener and the late Dr. Larry Mellichamp. This vigorous hybrid involves Sarracenia purpurea, rubra, psittacina, and leucophylla. It produces 2' tall light green pitchers that are heavily veined red toward the top and solidly on the hood, with a few small white stained glass windows. In early spring, the re emerging clumps are topped 18" tall stalks of