Carnivorous Plant Nursery Blog

CP Painting by Andrew Davis

CP Painting by Andrew Davis

We were very generously gifted this original piece of artwork this summer by a longtime customer and friend of the nursery, Andrew Davis!
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Garden Bog by Nora Sadler

Here's an example of a wonder bog garden created by Nora Sadler of Chadd's Ford, PA. Nora used a layer of pine needles to help cool the bog bed during the hot summer months.  Well done Nora.  

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Curious Business

Curious Business

Curious Business explores some of the most unique, unusual and successful businesses in the work. Host Alan Shane Lewis visits Carnivorous Plant Nursery.
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Pinguicula alpina

Northernmost Carnivorous Plant

World’s Northernmost Carnivorous Plant Scientists have found the carnivorous plant Pinguicula Alpina L., also known as the alpine butterwort, on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard.
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Bog Bed by Carter Hancock

Here's a great bog bed planted by enthusiast Carter Hancock of Bristow, VA.Notice how the rain downspout is close to and drains underground to assist with watering.
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Venus Flytrap Sculpture

Venus Flytrap Sculpture

Gigantic Venus Flytrap appears in courtyard of Carnivorous Plant Nursery. This is the work of VonChandler of D.W.C. Metals of Farmington, AK.     

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Huffington Post Article

Huffington Post Article Maryland's Carnivorous Plant Nursery Hosts Killer Botany Nice article about Carnivorous Plant Nursery and a happy customer. DERWOOD, Md. -- There are more than 650 carnivorous plants in the world and Michael Szesze guesses he's got about "four to five hundred" of them.
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Carnivorous Plant Nursery New Logo

Carnivorous Plant Nursery develops new logo. From an early experience photographing Venus flytraps, an Elder Borer Beetle landed right into the Flytrap, and that image evolved into our logo.
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Carnivorous Plant Nursery in the Washington Post

Carnivorous Plant Nursery in the Washington Post

Washington Post Magazine, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Carnivorous Plant Nursery is featured in the Post Sunday Magazine. "Somewhere along the evolutionary timeline of bog-dewlling angiosperms, the plants gathered together and decided they wouldn't take it any longer....." by Adrian Higgins,...

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