"Stuart Forbes" wrote in message
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and look at the bottom four photos, I took them in the Scottish
Highlands,
where these things grow like weeds in some places. Ignore the other
photos,
unless you want rid of flies and wasps by the hundreds!


Thanks Stuart I will have a look next time I am 'up north'

Watch our for sundews as well, specifically drosera rotundiflolia and
drosera intermedia. They're our other type of native carnivorous plant,
and
you'll find them all over the Scottish Highlands as well. They mostly grow
in peat bogs, especially very damp and soggy ones, often growing in
sphagnam
moss. Butterworts prefer drier (although still very damp) conditions, and
you'll see them all over the Highlands, growing in road side cuttings, so
get out at the little parking bays in the highlands and stretch your legs
and see what you can see!

The sundews are particularly nasty little killers, slowly digesting their
prey alive, but they do kill a lot of clegs (that's a large bloodsucking
insect that's the pitt bull terrier of the mosquito family!) so we all
like
them up here! There's some photos of them he

http://www-cp.stech.co.jp/cp/dro/D-rotundifolia_e.html

http://www-cp.stech.co.jp/cp/dro/D-intermedia_e.html

If anyone has outdoor bog gardens, these may be worth thinking of, as they
thrive in this country.


That is excellent thanks Stuart) Tucked away in my file)

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