Saturday, July 11, 2009

"But you cannot make her think"

The Venus Flytrap now has three, or possibly four buds. It's still in its protective terrarium, because the buds are still tiny, but I have managed to photograph them.

Behold:




If you want a larger, more detailed picture, the Flickr version is here

Today's title courtsey of Dorothy Parker. When challenged to make an epigram on the subject of "horticulture", she replied, "You can lead a whore to culture, but you cannot make her think!"

5 comments:

Lynn Jones said...

I see your plans for horticultural world domination are coming along... slowly :)

Let me know when you can feed it MPs :-)

Lara Tyg said...

Do you know It just struck me that Audrey II , evil ailien talking killer plant from the little shop of horrors had a deep male tennor voice.

Evil alien Tranny killer talking plant. .....are you breeding more of them ?

Pandora Caitiff said...

We'll see how these ones grow first.

Although I do appear to have more buds breaking the surface of the soil, so I don't know how many I'll have for repotting when they are big enough.

womaninblack said...

No update on the fly traps?
They haven't eaten you, have they...?

Pandora Caitiff said...

I'm still alive. :)

Not much progress on the Audreys, but I'll post a newer pic in a bit.