Bog Planter Set

$74.95

5 carnivorous plants, one each of the following:

  • Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
  • Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia sp.)
  • Sundew (Drosera sp.)
  • Butterwort (Pinguicula sp.)
  • Bladderwort (Utricularia sp.)

Ease to Grow: Easy!
Soil: All-Purpose Mix
Light: Bright indoors, full sun to partial sun outdoors
Water: Consistently moist with mineral-free water

This introductory carnivorous plant bog kit includes five specimens of the most popular and easy-to grow-carnivorous plants. The Venus Flytrap is world famous for its actively moving traps. A Pitcher Plant such as the Purple Pitcher Plant is very curious with no moving parts, but a pit fall trap that catches more insects than most CPs. Sundews grow a cluster of tentacle-like glistening traps that move slowly to snarl and engulf their prey. The Butterwort has pretty flowers, and sticky leaves that catch small insects. Terrestrial bladderworts have underground traps that catch nematodes.

These temperate, North American natives all grow in the same conditions, and are some of the easier carnivorous plants. Outdoor growing in a bog garden planter is ideal. If potted, they will do nicely in a small tray on a well-lit window sill during active growing months. During winter months plants should be allowed dormancy and will resume vigorous trap production come spring.

You select the size: small, medium, large, when available. For size and care information of each plant in the bog garden kit refer to the specific plant pages.

If ordered during winter months, plants may be sent that are dormant rhizomes, corms or hibernacula, trimmed of old traps. They will be true to size, but may not be showing their full forms. Given good growing conditions, they will emerge true to the size descriptions.

Plants shipped bare-root, wrapped in damp sphagnum moss. Photographs are representative of species, not the plants shipped.

Customer Reviews

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Brian Williams
Giving them some time

3 of the plants are dormant so I'll give it some time to see how they come back.

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Eric Devoe
Fantastic little starter set

Everything arrived healthy. Looking forward to seeing how these develop

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Bryce Burke
Awesome

We love our new plants. They were all packaged well and arrived happy and ready for potting.

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Aaron
Exactly as described

All plants came as expected and have new growth since arrival.

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JOHN W MICHAEL
Excellent for CP newbies who follow instructions = highly recommended!

After years of reading and watching vids, decided to ignore my prior experiences with multiple inexpensive carnivorous plants dying despite explicitly following all instructions - and try creating a bog garden. Cali Carnivores offered decades of experience and numerous DIY vids with credible info so I bought a 5 plant beginner kit with their bog planter/watering tray/CP bagged soil mix. (Figured doing everything the Cali Carnivores’ way gave me the best shot for breaking my “big box curse”.)

Overhead close up shows newly planted CPs in the mini-bog container in mid-March. Side view shows how plants have grown after 2 months outdoors in full sun. Note $5 water level gauge I added to help insure the filtered water level never drops too low. Final photo shows that both VFTs are going to flower 3 months after planting! (The black wire cage is needed to keep aggressive Chicago squirrels from digging up the plants to bury acorns & walnuts.)

Based on this experience, I would neverbconsider buying cheaper baby CPs grown from tissue culture elsewhere. Starting out with well-rooted plants grown from healthy mother plants by a nursery with decades of experience offers the best likelihood you’ll have success too.

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