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Carniverous plants have a lot to offer
This was the start of a rather unusual gardening experiment that largely evolved from being told it couldn't be done in a north-facing location outside at 600ft. This red-flowering carnivorous plant is one of the pitcher plant cultivars and I don't know anything about where it comes from. It's not invasive in my garden, I just like the look of it and it's easy to grow. What more could you wish for from any plant?
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23 Mar, 2008
I love these plants !! My pitcher plant never bloomed (in 3 years) and then one winter it died. Very nice !!
24 Mar, 2008
Love these plants, I'd like to have this variety too. Love the blooms.
24 Mar, 2008
!!!Never seen this plant b4 ?
24 Mar, 2008
I knew when I first saw the picture of the drooped flower heads that it was familiar... It is what we called a "Pitcher plant" The insects crawl into the tubular leaves (which are usually full of water) and drown because of the plant hairs that grow inward not allowing the insect to pass them to crawl out of the "pitcher" ..they exhaust themselves...fall back into the acidic water and are digested by the plant. Devilishly simple..but effective. competition for food in the bogs can be serious. The blooms are amazing though!! The plant I am most familiar with has white flowers. Do the blooms smell like carrion?
24 Mar, 2008
forgot to mention they are the provincial flower emblem of Newfoundland and Labrador. The main difference that I can see is that the pitchers are quite up reaching on this var. but the pitcher plant that is a wild flower in swamps and bogs as far west as Ontario have the pitchers almost horizontal from the base. Not at all the exotica that appears on the wikipedia page... one thing I did see while perrusing was Darlingtonia californica...have you seen that?
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This photo was taken at Winsford Walled Gardens.
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23 Mar, 2008
An amazing plant.