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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Sept 28, 2006 15:13:40 GMT
Are there any hardy carniverous plants
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2006 16:16:11 GMT
Not sure what you mean by hardy Susie Mine live all year in my conservatory, which gets fairly cold in the winter
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2006 16:19:03 GMT
That's the one, pitcher plant. Got it at Cambridge Strawberry Fair, but didn't look after it very well. Maybe I wasn't fated to have meat eating plants, being a semi veggie! Did you use rainwater?
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Sept 28, 2006 17:38:34 GMT
I meant are there any that can stay outside all year . They all look fantastic.
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Post by Plocket on Sept 28, 2006 17:45:57 GMT
If you look at the Little Shop of Horrors site I think they have some that can be left outside all year round. Don't you want to have one on a windowsill though Susie?
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Sept 29, 2006 10:38:46 GMT
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2006 13:46:06 GMT
Eeeek! Get the cat a spider plant and a cushion - that should keep it happy!!!
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Post by toonia on Sept 29, 2006 13:49:38 GMT
I read in today's paper that gardeners in Lyon had noticed a nauseating smell in one of the planthouses. a pitcher plant had eaten a mouse!
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Post by Plocket on Sept 29, 2006 14:46:12 GMT
I don't need a pitcher plant at the moment - the cat has decided to cull the local mouse population!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2006 15:29:15 GMT
I read in today's paper that gardeners in Lyon had noticed a nauseating smell in one of the planthouses. a pitcher plant had eaten a mouse! Yuk - it would take ages for the plant to digest a mouse. That reminds me I must start a thread about what happened last night just as I was about to start cooking dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2006 21:57:20 GMT
Some of the Saracenas are hardy down to minus 10. Generally many of the insectivorous plants from N America are hardy, as are the native British plants such as Sundews.
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Sept 29, 2006 22:03:46 GMT
Thanks Toadspawn, am definately going to try to find some!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 17:32:34 GMT
My Saracenas stay out all winter, in a shallow container too. I have pitchers & cobras as well as sundews. The Venus lives in the unheated greenhouse, it has fed on so many crane flies it should survive. They only ever have rain water, this summer it has been the sludgy drops in the bottom of buckets but they dont seem to have minded.
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