Carniverous Plants
Carnivorous Plants.
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Are you ready to add a touch of the extraordinary to your home?
Discover the captivating world of carnivorous plants!
These remarkable botanical wonders not only enhance any space with their unique beauty but also offer an engaging glimpse into nature’s incredible adaptability.
From the elegant Venus flytrap to the enchanting sundew, each plant showcases a fascinating mechanism for capturing and digesting insects, providing a natural pest control solution.
Perfect for both novice and experienced gardeners, our carefully curated selection of carnivorous plants brings a blend of science, art, and sustainability to your green space.
Explore our collection today and transform your garden into a living display of nature’s most intriguing creations!
Venus Fly Trap
The most popular of all carnivorous plants with its jaw like traps waiting to spring shut on any unsuspecting small insect. The venus flytrap really catches the imagination of children and adults alike! And is one of the most unusual plants in the world. Only water with rainwater and keep the plants in a cool position during the Winter months.
Always remove the flowers in the spring as these can weaken the plant.
These plants are mature and sent out ready potted in 9cm pots and come with a growing guide.
Flytraps do well on a sunny windowsill or frost-free greenhouse. Stand the plant in a large saucer of rainwater from March to Sept always watering from the saucer, pinch out any flower buds before they form as these can weaken the plants. Never make the traps shut artificially or force feed the plants, they can be fed the odd live fly every now and again if you wish. During the Winter months the plants will go into dormancy, if growing indoors move the plants to a much cooler position at this time, keep the compost just damp rather than wet and remove any dead foliage. Plants can be re-potted in our com 1 Feb-March time when they will come back into full growth. Remember these plants lose most of their foliage over winter.
Sarracenia Barba
Sarracenia ‘Barba’ is a trumpet pitcher plant that uses a ‘lobster-trap’ trapping mechanism. The pitchers are lined with nectar-exuding glands that tempt insects to step into the pitcher. They then gradually venture further down inside, where they cannot fly out. They drown in the sticky, enzyme-containing fluid at the bottom and are eventually digested by this carnivorous plant.
Sarracenia is native to the United States and grows in damp, swampy conditions. It’s effortless to grow and is ideal for an unheated greenhouse or cool windowsill. Avoid direct sunlight and ensure that the soil is moist at all times. Use distilled water or rainwater rather than tap water, as this may contain lime and chlorine that will harm the plant.
Sarracenia Fiona
Sarracenias differ in the time of the year when they grow best. Sarracenia Fiona is our own hybrid, and is not greatly affected by seasonal variations.
The pitchers colour relatively quickly, and start growing in early spring. Like all Sarracenias, the young pitchers of Sarracenia Fiona are green, and the full-grown pitchers take on a red colour.
Sarracenia Psittacina Parrot Pitcher Plant
A very bizarre carnivorous plant, looking like no other. If traps grow horizontally in a rosette and the trap is worth a close look at the clever lobster pot effect. Found growing wild in the areas prone to flooding where the plant has evolved catch aquatic animals such as tadpoles, small fish fry, insects etc.
It will also catch ground crawling insects when some situated amongst grasses and shrubs. When hybridised with other Sarracenias will produce some bizarre hybrids.
A good plant to grow on a windowsill as the height is a maximum of 15 centimetres (six inches) Plants have lovely colouration of red white and green. Flower colour is variable but some of the darker ones can appear almost black.
Sarracenia Juthatip Soper
This variety was crossed by Matthew Soper. The plant produces long, sturdy cups, the upper part of which is a deep red colour. Like all Sarracenias, the Juthatip Soper produces nectar to attract insects, but the amount of nectar that the plant produces is remarkable. In late summer, plants literally drip the nectar.