I will post various pictures of my garden bog here. Not at once so please be patient with me. The climate is the closed we come to continental in Denmark, lowest temp past winter was half an hour at minus 30C, but regulary temps below minus 20C. No shelter on the plants:
Sarracenia purpurea purpurea from Ontario
Drosera intermedia from North Carolina
Drosera filiformis filiformis from NC
Venus Fly Traps, this year they even started seeding around.
One can grow Lobelia even outside a bog bed such as yours. I've had them for years in a mixed perennial border. Quite easy plants they are and very rewarding.
Which is the tallest Sarracenia you can recommend for having the biggest pitchers?
VG, Stefan
Eigentümer der nationalen dt. Podophyllum-Sammlung (Podophyllum, was'n das?)
About the biggest pitchers, the problem when it comes to how tall a plant is, is the climate here. I simply cant make the flavas grow larger than 70Cm despite the same plants could easily reach 100 cm in a greenhouse. But I must also admit that I have never searched the largest plants. My main interest is in fact purpurea forms. I will show pictures later on. Hybrids are also interesting as southern more tender plants suddenly are much hardier when crossed, even when only using southern plants. As with Yuccas the work has just begun when it comes to selecting new forms to european climates. The largest Sarracenia in Denmark I have seen is this S x catesbaei in a naturalised population not far from here: It has the size of a decent coffetable. I will go for cuttings ssoon before the wild life service discover it and remove it.
Jürgen, I grow them in an artificial bog, made of pond liner, a bog hole filled with the plastic and then sand and peat. You can do the same, the more heat in summer the bigger plants.
A similarity to Yuccas is that when you create hybrids, anything goes... All species can create hybrids and all hybrids can create new hybrids so the variation and the potential is huge.
YUCCA & more
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12.09.2012 18:34
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