!RE: Orange flowers now pitcher plants
- Subject: !RE: Orange flowers now pitcher plants
- From: "Donna" j*@prairieinet.net
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:00:07 -0500
Marge,
Thanks for all the info :) You never cease to amaze me with your
knowledge and resources.... your awesome!
I am familiar with bogs and pcv tunnels to provide not only water but
fertilizers as well. Mine has a T with three bottom pipes filled with
holes so the entire area receives what ever I happen to use. Bogs are
great for lotus too!
Donna
>
> Donna...not Frank here, but before I built my mini-bog for my Sarrs
> and one cute little Venus flytrap, I got a lot of conflicting advice
> on hardiness from some kind people on Carnivorous plant list, so,
> since I'd gotten one of mine from Tony Avent, I wrote him and this is
> what he replied:
>
> "According to Fred Case, one of the worlds leading authorities, he
> grows ALL species outdoors in the ground in Saginaw, Michigan (zone
> 4b). I have discussed sarracenia hardiness with Fred on many
> occasions, and he insists that there is no problem with winter
> hardiness. I would recommend that they not remain in standing
> water/ice during the entire winter. "
>
> So, built my bog and planted my guys and they seem happy as
> clams...of course, I am south of you, but John Green in Salt Lake
> City, Utah, posted to CP list that "In my experience (I live in zone
> 5), pretty much all Sarracenia will do well. Of course, the more
> cold hardy ones like oreophila, flava, and purpurea ssp. purpurea
> will do fine, but even the southern ones like leucophylla and
> purpurea ssp. venosa seem to thrive. "
>
> He has a good page on CPs, with a link to his outdoor bog page plus
> other links of interest:
>
> http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jsg16/cp.htm
>
> There are other species of CPs that will also survive outside in z 5,
> but sarrs are my love....well, I'm quite fond of that little VFT,
> too...
>
> You cannot use water with chlorine or any other chemicals or
> dissolved solids for carnivorous plants. They are native to pure
> bogs...if the bogs get contaminated, they die.
>
> I collect rain water (not getting much so far this season) in a large
> plastic trash can with a screened top (to keep out mosquitoes, leaves
> and tree debris) and store it in used spring water jugs for my bog.
> If it doesn't rain, I dump in a gallon - I have a PVC pipe going to
> the bottom, terminating at the top, with a rock lid, so I can water
> from below, like a natural bog....seems to work.
>
> CP bogs are built of sand and peat - preferably, according to CP
> listers, long fiber sphagnum, however, mine is mostly baled peat with
> just a bit of sphagnum and mine seem OK with this.
>
> I say Go for it! Sarracenia are like potato chips...you can't just
> have one:-) Incredibly beautiful plants IMO with fantastic flowers
> in addition to their marvelous pitchers.
>
> Just do some research before you site and build your bog...
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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