#pitcher plants; native plants

[princessannelocavore]

A walk through an autumn garden: 5 things to do at Norfolk Botanical Garden

Are you looking for ideas for a fall outing or hoping to see a holiday light show? Check Norfolk Botanical Garden.

I can’t imagine a lovelier place for a fall outing than Norfolk Botanical Garden. The garden, with its varied landscaping and many theme gardens, is arguably at its peak in the spring when the azaleas are blooming. Still, it’s surprising how many colorful blooms you’ll see on its 175 acres. Of course, the biggest attraction this season is the Dominion Energy Garden of Lights, a walk throughh a…

[faguscarolinensis]

Sarracenia alata / Pale Pitcher Plant at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[ethereal-forest-furry]

mosses and the moss critters :3 and a baby katydid (unrelated)

[babbling-starling]

My little N. ventricosa has been doing so well I got brave and ordered some more carnivores! The paler nepenthes is closely related to ventracosa and the spotty one is a ventracosa hybrid, so I’m hoping they’ll do just as well. The fly trap and purple pitcher plant will be my first try doing winter dormancy. Fingers crossed!

Species in image descriptions!

[joy-haver]

Pitcher plants in the wild 🧡 so many lovely carnivorous plants are native to North America.

[pickleweed2]

Darlingtonia's, about 200' off the highway.

Oregon Dunes National Monument, Oregon | 11-22-2023

[huginsmemory]

Recently started collecting carnivorous plants and we got some fruitflies and so I moved em all up into the kitchen. My new favourite activity is watching them catch the fruitflies, HIGHLY recommended. I get SUCH a kick out of it, go buy some sundews people.

[tggardens]

Some recent finds from the Heaps Peak Arboretum Native Plant Sale yesterday! It was a great event, very well run by the volunteers. Getting there about an hour early was the right move, and the "serious" buyers brought wagons or huge bags for their purchases.

I went to check it out and specifically limited myself to only a few plants so I didn't overload myself and take on too much this summer. The baby is almost 9 months old now, so I'll have a little more time but it would definitely be too easy to plant the entire yard and lose it all.

So, I can home with a Lepechinia fragrans or Fragrant Pitcher Sage, a Ceanothus maritimus "Popcorn" (a cultivar), and a Blushing Coral Bells. According to a brief Google search that one is not actually a CA native plant, but is actually from the east coast of the US and isn't invasive so it can live in a pot instead of being planted directly into the ground.

I should have gotten some monkey flowers from the small patch of sun we have. Good thing there's another sale in the fall!

[cricketchirp]

Plains and Barrens and Bogs, Oh My!

Places new to us and those so much more familiar rounded out the week as My Guy and I made time to explore. Our first journey found us driving over an hour and a half south and only getting fake lost as we searched for routes and a place to eat lunch. Mike’s Diner won, a hearty ham and cheese sandwich for him, and grilled cheese with tomato for me. Comfort food. And then we headed along a few…

[badolmen]

quiz: are you a marsh, swamp, bog, or fen?

[coloradomartini]

Checking out Venus Flytraps in their NATIVE habitat

Come with us as we look for the animal eating carnivorous plants in their Native habitat at Carolina Beach State Park - Venus Fly Traps, Pitcher Plants, and Sundews. We come across many other wonderous animals on our hike through the swampy area.

Come with us as we look for the animal eating carnivorous plants in their Native habitat at Carolina Beach State Park – Venus Fly Traps, Pitcher Plants, and Sundews. We come across many other wonderous animals on our hike through the swampy area. Learn more in the video by Epic Earth YouTube: Carolina Beach State Park Carnivorous Plants, North Carolina More about this subject

[guraiuna]

Did I just fish two crystal flies out of a pitcher plant only to catch them again?! I thought the pitcher plant would give me crystal core directly NOOOO

[faguscarolinensis]

Sarracenia alata / Pale Pitcher Plant at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[ariella-monti]

Celeste, Belinda, and Sophia have joined Edith in her new digs.

[gardener-but-i]

Lowbush blueberries with darling little pink flowers and a pitcher plant seen in a bog. I always thought of carnivorous plants as being "exotic" and not cold tolerant, but this type of pitcher plant is native to new england!

Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry)

Serracenia purpurea (common pitcher plant)

And rock harlequin! Capnoides sempervirens, aka pink corydalis. You can see some blueberries in the background of this too

[hissinglloydgarmadon]

Because of course the meat-eating plants are American…