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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Darlingtonia Wayside - Florence, Oregon

Darlingtonia Wayside - Florence, Oregon

Darlingtonia State Botanical Wayside is one of the most accessible bogs of carnivorous plants in the United States. There is an easily traveled boardwalk from the parking lot to the Darlingtonia californica, Cobra lilies. The bog is located just north of...

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Fossil Pitcher Plant?

Carnivorous Plant Fossils

Carnivorous Plant Fossils. Though there is debate among archeobotanists, the oldest carnivorous plant fossil may well be Archaeamphora longicervia, found in 2005 near Jinzhou, China.
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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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