I wish everyone a happy New Year!

I visited a habitat of Drosera tokaiensis in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

  

Misaki Kiya, one of my good friends, invited me for a trip to Naruto-Togane Carnivorous Plant Community, which is a protected carnivorous plant habitat on a border of Sanmu City and Togane City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. 8 species of carnivorous plants are found in this bog, of which we saw 4 Drosera species in the wild this time. It wasn't easy to photograph them because the rosetted species were growing among taller plants.

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Drosera lunata (= D. peltata)

  

 

Drosera cuneifoliaです。南アフリカに分布しています。

My Drosera cuneifolia thriving. This species is native to South Africa.

I revisited Okutama in rural Tokyo after 7 years.

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３月に都内で開催された『第１５回伝統園芸フェアー』に木谷美咲さんと行ってきました。

I visited the 15th Traditional Japanese Houseplant Fair, which was held in March 2015 in Tokyo, with Misaki Kiya, a good friend of mine.

 I went to the 1st Winter Exhibition of Drosera held in Tokyo on the 14th of February. Exhibitions specialised in Drosera would be rather rare. I arrived in the morning just after the exhibition started. I wondered in to be shocked at the crowd and the heat of excitement filling the place. There were plants for sale, and I saw Eiji Nakamura and Misaki Kiya, two friends of mine who were running this exhibition, panicking while trying to deal with the queue of people waiting to pay for them. I helped my friends without having a look at the displays, and it was only after most of the visitors were gone in the afternoon that I was actually able to look at the displays. In the meanwhile, we were interviewed and photographed for a magazine article. After all, we could call it a success.

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