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Sarracenia purpurea: gardeners dream or growers hype?
A couple of weeks ago, at a county show nearby, there was a bloke in a
little white van, wedged in among the legions of Barbour vendors. He was selling carnivorous plants, and I was particularly taken - taken enough to shell out £7 for one - by the "slug-eating plants" that occupied one of his tables. They were described as peat-bog dwellers of North America/Canada, cold-hardy down to -8 deg C or so, and slug-eaters: the more they eat, the bigger they get, up to a couple of feet across or so. So now I have this plant in my possession, certain questions spring to mind. Like: given that (in a pot context) it likes to sit in a saucer of (rain)water, how are the slugs going to get across the moat? I would like to plant it out in the garden, in a simulated peat-bog micro-environment. Is this a reasonable thing to do (for instance, sink a large container filled with peat, plant it in that and keep it well watered at all times)? And like: is it possible to propagate this plant? The thought of dozens of slug-eating plants dotted around my allotment is almost too awesome to contemplate ..... Andy -- Hell! - don't worry about old "raving Dave" Ullrich ... Basically he's a sociopath who can't see a red rag without regarding it as a personal insult. Bill Taylor, sci.math |
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