General Growing and Care
Growing Tips for Wildflowers
Wildflowers Soil: 1:1:1: peat:sand:leaf mould. Container: 6+" plastic pot. Watering: moist to well drained. Light: partial to dappled sun. Temperature: warm summer, cool winter-tolerates frost. Humidity: medium. Location: outdoors, cold greenhouse. Dormancy: yes. Habitat Wildflowers grow naturally in the...
Growing Tips for Upland Orchids
Upland Orchids are Hardy Orchids that grow naturally in the woodsy areas above bogs, pocosins and fens of primarily eastern North America.
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Growing Tips for Tropical Butterworts
Tropical Butterworts, Pinguicula, typically grow in seasonal humid fog forests in highland areas of Central America and the Carribbean, on cliffs of limestone. They experience warm, summer monsoons and cooler winter droughts.
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Growing Tips for Terrestrial Bladderworts
Terrestrial Bladderworts, Utricularia, are the most common group of CPs and grow in a variety of biomes worldwide. Most terrestrial bladderworts grow in typical CP conditions of sunny, very wet, peaty soil.
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Growing Tips for Roridula
How to grow Roridula carnivorous plants successfully. Roridula can be challenging to grow. Keep in mind it comes from a mediterranean-like climate, much like that of Cephalotus, and prefers humid, warm, sunny conditions, i.e. subtropical.
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Propagation
Carnivorous Plants can be propagated in a variety of ways including: seeds, vegetative apomixis, leaf budding, stolons, tissue culture and more.
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Types of Carnivorous Plants
Carnivorous plants can be group by their method of trapping: active, semi-active, passive.
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Potting Cephalotus
Here's an illustrated description of how to pot a Cephalotus. The technique can easily be applied to many carnivorous plants.
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Pests on Carnivorous Plants
Carnivorous plants are typically pest free, but can be bothered by scale, aphids, thrips and a few other pests, that are easily treated.
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Overwintering Carnivorous Plants
It's a good idea to provide winter protection for your carnivorous plants. You have put a lot of time, energy and money into your bog garden, and protecting your investment is worthwhile.
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