lorisarvendu Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 I've had a stone pot hanging around for ages, so I thought I'd try some sarracenias in it two years ago. I was very protective over them at first and kept covering them up with tea-towels when the frost came down, (I even moved them into the garage one cold night!) but last winter I didn't...just to see what happened. And here they are now (July 2009), in the front garden doing very well. I have mainly purpurea (which has been very hardy through the winter), some leucophylla and a stevensii. I have no idea where this capensis came from. I didn't plant it there! But it seems to have also survived the winter. I also had a few more sarracenias in an old ceramic sink out the back garden for a couple of years, but they were suffering from slugs & snails so this spring I moved them into another pot (plastic this time). I have some purpurea, a purpurea/psittacina cross I guess (it's quite nice to look at, but Heaven knows how it catches anything!), and something called S. Micke (??) that I picked up in a garden centre. Oh, and there's a small VFT in there as well. I used black bin liners for both pots, and a simple 1:1 moss peat/sharp sand mix, with a bit of sphagnum moss thrown in. The purpureas seem to like it - this is the first time I've ever had flowers from them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Looking good. Your psittacina/purpurea cross looks more like psittacina x leucophylla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorisarvendu Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) Looking good. Your psittacina/purpurea cross looks more like psittacina x leucophylla. You're right, yes it does, and it almost certainly is! [Edit: its Sarracenia × wrigleyana] I actually had one of these a couple of years ago and I gave it away because I didn't have enough window ledge space (this was before I'd tried an outside bog). Unfortunately when you pick these up from a garden centre they don't have much information on them. In fact this one had a little plastic tag that said "Sarracenia Purpurea" with a (completely wrong) picture of an ordinary purp, so I had no idea what it really was. Our local garden centre (Bardills, on the A52 near J25 M1, if you're in the Derby/Notts area) does have a healthy & variable CP trade, but they don't label them as well as they might. I suspect that most of what they sell probably ends up dead because the buyers don't really know how to look after it. I can see how the growers have been fascinated by the successful cross, resulting in this weird 45-degree hybrid, but I can't honestly see how it benefits the plant. As far as I can figure, psittacina's horizontal adaptation works because it comes from an environment that periodically floods, resulting in aquatic fauna finding their way in. This leaf isn't going to pick up much because a) it's almost vertical, so it's out of the flood zone and b) the hole is too small. But it looked nice and I just had to buy it. Edited July 19, 2009 by lorisarvendu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorisarvendu Posted July 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 A year on, and my bogs are doing ok. Well they're not really bogs, they're outside pots. I've now got 5. The old concrete one is still in the front garden: Whilst I now have 4 pots of varying sizes out the back on the patio: Larger pics can be seen on my web page. Just click on each thumbnail: http://www.lorisarvendu.force9.co.uk/Carni...us_Plants_5.htm -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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