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Re: [SG] Sarracenia was: Overwintering

You're welcome, Sheila, hope they prove useful.

Am delighted to hear that just digging and piling works for someone who
really knows Canna!  I thought I was just lucky through being time deprived
:-)

As for the Sarracenia and your bog....I'd give the bog a pH test to make
certain it actually is acidic as my understanding is that these guys really
must have it acid and don't want rich soil, hence my planting in peat and
sand.  But, I'm still in prayer mode with this genus...not enough
experience to really know what I'm doing.

If you haven't visited  the Carnivorous Plant Archive on the web, go take a
look, they have a ton of info. on growing them, etc.  URL is:
http://redtail.unm.edu/cp/

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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Sheila wrote:

> >Canna have always given me a fit.  Oddly enough, the last couple of
years
> >I've dug them and ended up leaving them in a pile in the garage and had
> more >come through the winter alive
>
> This may be the way to do it, Marge.  A friend of mine who is a Canna
> fanatic stores his just this way and had not lost a one in at least ten
> years.  Mine have always dried out or rotted while I tried what I thought
> were 'better' storage methods!
>
> >Probably through sheer luck, I have managed to keep Sarracenia
leucophylla
> >alive for two summers and a winter and it actually bloomed and made
> >pitchers for me this year (Yea!)
>
> This is one of the Sarracenia I am buying.  I have another question for
> you:  Must the plants be in spaghnum peat when planted out next spring?
I
> have a small, acidic marsh (artificial), which I keep moist but without
> standing water; the medium is composted soil, grass, and leaf mold rather
> than spaghnum moss.  The marsh is where I intended to grow the pitcher
> plants, but I don't want to put them in an environment that is too rich
for
> them.
>
> Thanks for the links!
>
>
> Sheila Smith
> mikecook@pipeline.com
> Niles, MI  USA, Z 5/6
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