These plants do not need umbrellas, they are 100% hydrophobic right from nature.

I was able to find a places where a bit of water was stuck in a place where all sides went up, in a bowl of sorts, and it cannot leave until the wind blows and moves the leaf.

Before I show you more on how this plant is doing today, let's take a look at the day it almost died.

Back in Time

It was about three months ago that I noticed the leaves being eaten from the bottom up on my Purple Cabbage plants. I tried fencing, lids, or putting them up high. Still, the leaves where decreasing in number.

As you see in these photos from this post last November, I had a problem! I tried one of these leaves and they are delicious until you get to the thick part that joins the main stem. Of the two healthy cabbage plants, only the one above survived.

I know that I have geckos and salamanders in my garden. I have seen them. There are plenty of birds that visit daily too. I am not sure if those are what is eating these plants. Could be. This plant was not the only one that was being ravaged either. In a desperate move, I took this plant to the back patio to die. I still watered it but did not give it much thought. The back patio gets almost no sun.

I kept putting more dirt up around its bare stem and did see some recovery. I never expected it to produce fruit though. I am still not sure if it will, because this is my first ever cabbage plant. The cover photo above shows a possible head of cabbage growing on the left side. I am starting to see hope for this one.

Here is a peek at the cavernous tunnels between the leaves.

Whatever was eating all the leaves has stopped doing it. Maybe the animal does not have access to the back patio - that is a sign that the damage was not perpetrated by birds.

Here is what it looks like today, that is to say, for our update post.

This one is looking so good that even I had to check again to see if it is the same plant!
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A quick peek under the bottom leaves reveals every single scar from the stolen leaves of ninety days ago.

This is an amazingly beautiful plant and a delicious salad addition. and I am so happy to have it thriving in the smaller of the two garden areas.

I mentioned that the cabbage was not the only victim of the mysterious animal. Here are some pots that used to be filled with carnivorous plants.

This is a close up of where something was burrowing just last night.

I am hoping that whatever it is, it learns that there is not food here for it.

Venus Propagation

I know it has only been a couple of days since we discovered this microscopic venus plant, but it is growing and proving that it is a venus fly trap!

The larger of the two leaves on the right, is getting old and ragged. There is something just out of focus closer to the camera - we will get to that in a bit. The leaf on the left has a clear trap forming and growing - that was our 'uncertain' leaf from last post. Then we have something small coming up from the middle. Let me get a little closer...

Yes, that looks like another trap forming. Soon we will need to give this one a pot of its own! This is my first ever Venus reproduction by seed or propagation.

Now, getting back to that blurry shadow from two photos above.

Now that I pulled back the focus, I see that this is a baby Binata Multifida, though I do not remember propagating that plant. Yet here it is only an inch from a brand new Venus Fly Trap.

This one is just a bit smaller than the babies I had found under their parent.

These plants are some of my best bug catchers with their forking branches and sticky tentacles

Here is the big brother, full of bugs and sporting while flowers. Yes, I am manually pollinating them.

I want all of these babies and medium size plants in their own pots before mid-summer is done. I am thrilled to have some of the more difficult carnivorous plants reproducing.

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