Growing plants, organic gardening, cold hardy tropicals
These big, upright elephant ears are becoming more popular lately. I see them in public landscapes more and more and find them for sale at nurseries quite often. It has the upward pointing leaves of Alocasia and is gets very large, up to 6 to 7 feet tall with 3 foot leaves. It is native [...]
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The horsetail plant grows where it stays wet or where it gets plenty of water. It is sold in nurseries as a water garden or bog plant. In some areas it can be very invasive. In northern California we saw a form of horsetail growing dense in wet areas along some roads and were told [...]
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This small pitcher plant has pitchers that are recumbent, lying almost flat on the ground forming a sort of rosette. The top of the pitcher is shaped somewhat like the beak of a parrot, thus the name. With the bulbous head and recumbent pitchers that have a sort of fin, this pitcher plant looks much [...]
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The Purple Pitcher plant is native to the eastern U.S. as well as the Great Lakes region and eastern Canada. It is the only species of Sarracenia that thrives in a cold, temperate climate. The species is made up of two sub-species, S.purpurea-purpurea and S. purpurea-venosa. S.p.purpurea the more cold hardy and requires a dormant [...]
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This carnivorous pitcher plant is native to north America and commonly grows on the southeast coast, especially the Florida panhandle. There are a number of varieties or cultivars of this pitcher plant with some having pitchers up to 3 feet tall and many color variations. It produces smaller pitchers in the spring and taller ones [...]
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I grow Sarracenia plants. These pitcher plants are cold hardy and native to the southeast for the most part. A few are very cold hardy growing as far north as Michigan and Canada. These beautiful carnivorous plants are easy to grow if you follow these basic guidelines. Soil: Sarracenia do best in a mix of [...]
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