wintering sarracenia judith hindel

Question Lily in water feature Lily in Water feature I have a Judith hindel that I have had for about 8 years. I live in Western Washington south of Olympia Washington in Region 4 of Western Gardening.

Tracyi

QuestionHey guys, Jason here from AZ. The Tracyi I got from you guys a year ago grew into a beautiful bush this year and is now dormant. My question is about division. There are at least eight resting buds that I ca

portland cement

QuestionI want to make a moving water water feature for my patio. I will use a small pond made of some form of plastic with an over lay channel for water flow. Will the portland cement poison sarracenina? I would ev

bog garden drainage

QuestionI am going to make my first bog garden this spring. I have a plastic pre-made pond liner, its a couple feet wide and long by a foot deep . I dont know if i should drill the drainage holes in the sides a few

Mold in Spatulatas

QuestionHi Guys... Im trying my hand at growing tropicals indoors now that IM comfortable with Non-tropics out side. I have a small container of Spats and one of the spats has died and is starting

Paraffin (aka. Kerosene) Greenhouse Heater

QuestionHi Jeff/Jacob, The time of year has once again come around for considering overwintering arrangements for my Sarracenia collection. Luckily however, I live in England, in zone 8, so I actually have very lit

Madagascarensis

QuestionMadagascareniss QUESTION: Hello guys! I have a Madagascarensis and its doing well but when it grew it kinda fell to the side. Is that normal behavior? She looks healthy but as you can see in the pict

humidifier algae

QuestionI got a growing problem ,but its more of a how do i not grow. I run a humidifier all day every day,its how i get my nepenthes to grow pitchers all year in my house without a greenhouse,and keep the pitchers

leaving plants out side for winter

QuestionHi i have vft sarracenia flava,rubra,purpuria,scarlet bell,vft,and drosera intermedia and was wondering if i have to protect them because so far we had 3 frost this past 3 weeks and plants started to freeze

nepenthes lights

QuestionI was at a zoo last year,and in the tropical exibite there was a tropical lizard tank with a nepenthes in it. I did not know of allexperts yet nor did i think to take a picture of the pitchers or what kind o

Cephalotus failing to thrive

QuestionSad Ceph Happy Ceph QUESTION: I purchased a cephalotus eight months or so ago and it was lovely when I received it. It has been limping along since then. Any new growth doesnt last long. New pi

Carnivorous Plants Suitable for Egypt

QuestionHi Im from Cairo, Egypt and was very interested in growing venus flytraps, sarracenia and nepenthes. I would like to know what type of carnivorous plants/hybrids will grow in our climate as it is quite hot

over-wintering Sarracenia and Darlingtonia

QuestionJeff, I have a question regarding over-wintering Sarracenia and Darlingtonia. The winter temperatures can get well below 20 degrees F where Im located. Do you think if I put my plants in a location sheltere

sphahgnum peat moss

Questiondoes sphagnum peat moss need any special care during the winter? AnswerHi Dillon, Not really. The only thing would be if you want to use some, youll need to keep it in a location above freezing since

N. Miranda flower

Question N. Miranda flower stal This N. Miranda grew the long brown flower stalk several months ago. Recently this N. Miranda and another N. Miranda have produced this smaller, shorter flower stalk. Can

Light for a cephalotus

QuestionHey guys from Sarracenia :) This is my first time buying light. Im looking for indoors light for a Cephalotus (i buy from you:) I read that 1000 and 1500 was great but...I don\t know a anything about light.

Is my plant in its vineing stage?

Question Mirabilis x gracilis Hey guys! I received my N. Mirabilis x gracilis from eBay in the mail the other day. It seems to have survived the shipping well. Although the very top of the tendril on the gr

Insecticide for Pitchers, VFT

QuestionI saw on your Volume I DVD to use Ortho Systemic Insect Killer to control thrips on young pitcher & VFT growth in the spring. I thought I would ask Santa for some to prepare for spring, but cant find that ex

Pinguiculosis

Question Esserania pinguicula What do I have to do to help my pinguicula esserania acquier more A pink color ? She gets 4 hours of sun AnswerHi Gabriel, The more succulent forms of Pinguicula are used to

keeping sundew alive

QuestionI had a Frasier Island sundew that I moved out of an eastern facing window to a mantle with a CFL bulb on it at least 12 hours a day ( I didnt think it was getting enough light where it was and was too cold)