plants outside...Rain problem.

[calek]

Hey everybody!

I moved all of my plants outside like 2 weeks ago. They are not totally outside though,m they are looking INCREDIBLY happy, especially the Drosera Capensis.

Still it has just started raining really hard 2 days ago, and the Drosera's and Nepenthes are getting quite soaked, by being constantly sprinkled with with rain water.

I am specially worried with the Drosera, because I have read that they loose can dew and can even rot if they have water on their leaves.

So what shall I do?

Move them in again? (I hope not)

What?

Thanks!

Bye!

EDIT:

-Tonight I checked on the plants, the Drosera Capensis is starting to loose dew.

Edited June 6, 2009 by calek

[Stefan P]

You could put a little bit of an umbrella over them Though I don't know how you would go about that

Edited June 6, 2009 by Stefano

[gardenofeden]

well they get rained on in the wild! wild plants have less leaves, less dew...

[jesse]

I am specially worried with the Drosera, because I have read that they loose can dew and can even rot if they have water on their leaves.

So what shall I do?

Move them in again? (I hope not)

Cape Town in South Africa, the area where D. capensis lives around in the wild, receives something about 520 mm of precipitation per year. Maximum 93 mm in June as www.worldweather.org tells. And the plants do well.

Elmshorn in Germany, where I keep my plants outside in summer, receives something about 750 mm of precipitation per year and the plants do well during summer. Precipitation in summer around 70 mm per month.

How much is the mean precipitation per year and max. average per month in your area?

If your area receives more than 900 mm per year or some months average more than 100 mm precipitation, you perhaps better think of some kind of rain protection for the Drosera.