More butterworts

After the trip to Königssee, I was inspired to retail therapy and bought myself as many butterworts as Hampshire Carnivorous Plants could supply:

They did me proud over this summer, with two of them flowering despite the root disturbance (on which butterworts are not keen), the chunky cultivar ‘Tina’:

and the daintier species P. esseriana:

In winter, a lot of butterwort species give up on making large, sticky, carnivorous leaves, and instead produce compact non-carnivorous rosettes that look a bit like houseleeks:

Carnivory is not free, so this is probably an adaptation to the lack of insect prey available during the winter months.

When I grow up I want one of these.