This is one of my pitcher plants. These are a type of carnivorous plant which trap insects when they fall into the tall tubes created by their leaves. When I bought it, I bought a Sarracenia purpurea and a Sarracenia catesbaei, also called a Sarracenia oreophila, and I am unsure which is which! On the […]
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Jan 03
Jan 03
The big tap water vs rainwater debate
When watering carnivorous plants, what kind of water is safe to use and what isn’t? Originally posted 2015-01-03 10:21:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Repotting Carnivorous Plants – Nepenthes Pitcher Plants
Originally posted 2014-01-09 12:36:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Pinguicula x “Tina” Butterwort
This is my Pinguicula x “Tina”, a hybrid Mexican butterwort derived from the Pinguicula agnata and Pinguicula zecheri. Butterworts look almost too pretty to be carnivorous plants, but they are very effective at luring, trapping and digesting small insects. Their leaves emit sticky liquid which traps any bug unfortunate enough to assume it’s a safe place […]
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How it all started: carnivorous plant fascination
I love David Attenborough, so was really excited when I saw that the Private Life of Plants BBC documentary series from the mid 90s was being repeated. When he started talking about venus fly traps I was particularly interested because when I was a child my siblings and I had a venus fly trap that […]
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How To Build A Carnivorous Plant Bog Garden
Originally posted 2014-12-27 10:20:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Preparing carnivorous plants for the winter
Originally posted 2014-12-10 11:24:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Repotting Carnivorous Plants – Pinguicula moranensis
Originally posted 2015-01-10 11:27:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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My Venus Fly Trap is eating itself!
I bought a new venus fly trap today. I wasn’t planning to, but I had gone shopping for compost and they were right by the cash register… I picked one that looked healthy, although perhaps a little overcrowded in the pot it’s in. When I got it home, because it had been hanging around in […]
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Why do carnivorous plants eat insects?
Most plants get their nourishment from sunshine, water and the soil. However carnivorous plants such as venus fly traps, pitcher plants and sundews evolved in areas where the soil was poor, so minerals and nutrients were hard to find. By adapting over time, insectivorous plants learned that they could still get the food they needed, even […]
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