I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers

It will survive if your garden is a sphagnum bog.

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I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


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lunarstablos

Its a bog plant, so you want a trough with virtually no drainage and in
shade. Should do nicely.

Did a quick google check and found...

http://www.easycarnivores.co.uk/dionaea/ quote:
This plant is hardy down to a few degrees centigrade and can even be grown
outdoors in the UK in sheltered positions. It is advisable though to bring
your plants in for the winter and keep them on a bright, cool windowsill.

Also this guy http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/bog/typevft.html really seems to
know his stuff, quote from website:

a.. These plants can be grown outdoors, especially if you live in warmer
climates than here in the UK. However, I have a VFT in the garden at the
moment, buried in it's original pot (to maintain the nutrient free compost)
and close to a run used by the local ants. When I first planted it, within
half an hour, all six of it's current traps had been triggered!
a.. The temperature must not be allowed to drop below freezing, so I'll have
to re-dig up the pot and bring the back indoors before the first frosts
arrive in October.

So maybe worth a go? Hope this is of some help.

Clare


"lunarstablos" wrote in message
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I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


--
lunarstablos

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:58:44 +0000 (UTC), "batgirl"
wrote:

Did a quick google check and found...

http://www.easycarnivores.co.uk/dionaea/ quote:
This plant is hardy down to a few degrees centigrade and can even be grown
outdoors in the UK in sheltered positions. It is advisable though to bring
your plants in for the winter and keep them on a bright, cool windowsill.

Also this guy http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/bog/typevft.html really seems to
know his stuff, quote from website:

a.. These plants can be grown outdoors, especially if you live in warmer
climates than here in the UK. However, I have a VFT in the garden at the
moment, buried in it's original pot (to maintain the nutrient free compost)
and close to a run used by the local ants. When I first planted it, within
half an hour, all six of it's current traps had been triggered!
a.. The temperature must not be allowed to drop below freezing, so I'll have
to re-dig up the pot and bring the back indoors before the first frosts
arrive in October.

So maybe worth a go? Hope this is of some help.

Clare


"lunarstablos" wrote in message
...

I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


--
lunarstablos

A nursery I've bought CP's from in the past
http://www.littleshopofhorrors.co.uk/customer/home.php told me they
had a bog barrel that contained amongst other things VFT's and that
froze solid one winter and the plants came back in the spring, every
one I've planted out (in my cobra lily tubs) has been over run with
sphagnum moos before it had a chance to get going.
Ford.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:58:44 +0000 (UTC), "batgirl"
wrote:

Did a quick google check and found...

http://www.easycarnivores.co.uk/dionaea/ quote:
This plant is hardy down to a few degrees centigrade and can even be grown
outdoors in the UK in sheltered positions. It is advisable though to bring
your plants in for the winter and keep them on a bright, cool windowsill.

Also this guy http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/bog/typevft.html really seems to
know his stuff, quote from website:

a.. These plants can be grown outdoors, especially if you live in warmer
climates than here in the UK. However, I have a VFT in the garden at the
moment, buried in it's original pot (to maintain the nutrient free compost)
and close to a run used by the local ants. When I first planted it, within
half an hour, all six of it's current traps had been triggered!
a.. The temperature must not be allowed to drop below freezing, so I'll have
to re-dig up the pot and bring the back indoors before the first frosts
arrive in October.

So maybe worth a go? Hope this is of some help.

Clare


"lunarstablos" wrote in message
...

I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


--
lunarstablos

Oops almost forgot, they like bright light the brighter the light
(e.g. full sun) the redder the insides of the traps.
Ford.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:58:44 +0000 (UTC), "batgirl"
wrote:

Did a quick google check and found...

http://www.easycarnivores.co.uk/dionaea/ quote:
This plant is hardy down to a few degrees centigrade and can even be grown
outdoors in the UK in sheltered positions. It is advisable though to bring
your plants in for the winter and keep them on a bright, cool windowsill.

Also this guy http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/bog/typevft.html really seems to
know his stuff, quote from website:

a.. These plants can be grown outdoors, especially if you live in warmer
climates than here in the UK. However, I have a VFT in the garden at the
moment, buried in it's original pot (to maintain the nutrient free compost)
and close to a run used by the local ants. When I first planted it, within
half an hour, all six of it's current traps had been triggered!
a.. The temperature must not be allowed to drop below freezing, so I'll have
to re-dig up the pot and bring the back indoors before the first frosts
arrive in October.

So maybe worth a go? Hope this is of some help.

Clare


"lunarstablos" wrote in message
...

I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


--
lunarstablos

Sorry to post yet again but where did you buy the plant? if it was
from a garden centre, repot it any way most of the time there watered
wrong (it's got to be rain water they hate tap water) just pot it in a
mix of 50-50 sphagnum moss peat and washed (children's play) sand,
stand it on a window sill in 1" or so of rain water and keep it that
way until winter then keep it just damp 'till spring and up the water
yet again. Some people (including me) cut off any flower stalks that
form as I've found the flowers aren't much to look at and the plant
seems to put soo much effort into making them that the traps suffer.
If you ever get bitten by the CP bug try
http://www.hampshire-carnivorous-plants.co.uk/ not only is the owner
very helpful he's won another Gold at this years Chelsea Flower Show.
I'll shut up now :0)
Ford.

"Ford Prefect" wrote in message
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..every
one I've planted out (in my cobra lily tubs) has been over run with
sphagnum moos before it had a chance to get going.

Fascinating mental image...VBG

--
Brian
Henry Fielding: "All Nature wears one universal grin"

lunarstablos wrote:
I have just bought a small Venus Fly Trap plant and the label said they
need lots of light and moisture.

Would it survive if I was to repot it in the garden for the summer?

Cheers


--
lunarstablos
It will probably prefer to live outside - it can catch more food!
Key things to remember are to keep it well watered with soft water
(rain water ideal), it likes full sun and make sure you have the
compost mix right.

Have fun!
Alastair

Thanks everyone, it's a great help!

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:32:56 +0100, "Brian Watson"
wrote:


"Ford Prefect" wrote in message
.. .

..every
one I've planted out (in my cobra lily tubs) has been over run with
sphagnum moos before it had a chance to get going.

Fascinating mental image...VBG

I meant moss not moos, fingers faster than brain :0D
Ford.

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from Christopher Norton contains these words:

Its a bog plant, so you want a trough with virtually no drainage and in
shade. Should do nicely.

Agree with first parameter but not with second. Venus fly trap likes
full sun, though mine does well in an east-facing window.

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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"Ford Prefect" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:32:56 +0100, "Brian Watson"
wrote:


"Ford Prefect" wrote in message
. ..

ever one I've planted out (in my cobra lily tubs) has been over run with
sphagnum moos before it had a chance to get going.

Fascinating mental image...VBG

I meant moss not moos, fingers faster than brain :0D

Yes, I did realise that.

Just for a fleeting moment, though, I was seeing a herd of stampeding Jersey
cows in green Jerseys.

Comes from having an associative mind, I s'pose.

--
Brian