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Q/A #110 - Sarracenia Not Growing Well in a Terrarium(Post)
QUESTION: I purchased a Sarracenia purpurea (from a different nursery) at the beginning of winter and it grew some new pitchers, then it started growing these long ones with no opening. I ha ...
Q/A #2 - Should I Refrigerate My Sarracenia in Central Florida?(Post)QUESTION: Hi I’m a amateur carnivorous plant collector in central Florida, zone 9. I’ve have a variety of plants and the three I have that require dormancy are a Venus flytrap, a Sarra ...
Q/A #89 - Sarracenia Didn't Survive Winter.(Post)QUESTION:Sarracenia purchased last spring and summer I planted in an outdoor bog garden, in fall I covered the entire planter with a foot of leaves. I live in Wisconsin. I uncovered a couple weeks ...
Q/A #5 - Did a Sudden Freeze Kill My Flytrap and Sarracenia?(Post)QUESTION: I tried to be brave and keep my plants outside, but I'm honestly afraid the cold has killed them. I'm growing two Venus Flytraps and a Sarracenia purpurea. I'm in zone 6 and we haven't ...
Q/A #142 - Sarracenia Roots Growing Out of the Pot(Post)QUESTION:I ordered the plant and the plant arrived on June 23. the plant is in a 1 inch watertray. The plants roots are starting to stick out of the bottom of the pot. Do I need to repot the plant, a ...
Q/A #113 - Sarracenia Didn't Survive Winter in Nebraska(Post)QUESTION: Last year I had to buy all new plants because my plants from the previous year died over winter. Did they die again? Do any of them appear to be alive? I'm in Nebraska. We had a sl ...
Q/A #94 - Floppy Sarracenia Pitchers(Post)QUESTION: I have a Sarracenia leucophylla x rubra. What do you do, if anything, about a Sarracenia that always gets “floppy?” It was doing better this year being planted higher and more exposed ...
A Common Cause of Floppy Sarracenia Pitchers(Post)Hi, I’m Jacob, one of the growers here at Sarracenia Northwest. We recently got a question from a grower in the United Kingdom. “I have a Sarracenia Juthatip Soper growing in a po ...
Q/A #66 - Best Plant for Yellow Jackets?(Post)QUESTION: I live here in Portland and was referred to you on a recent visit to Leach Botanical Garden. I’ve been inundated with yellow jackets and wasps and someone at the garden suggested I ...
Q/A #69 - How Do I Keep Birds out of My Bog Garden?(Post)QUESTION: What can I do to keep starlings and other birds out of my bog gardens? They pull the sphagnum out and dig holes in the soil with lighting speed. I am concerned that they are going to d ...
Q/A #75 - Ants in Plants!(Post)QUESTION:I was trimming off last year's dead pitchers on my Sarracenia and noticed small black ants on the plants. They appear to be living IN the plant pots. Several came out of the peat when the ...
Q/A #79 - Outdoor Plants Not Waking Up.(Post)QUESTION:I recently purchased a Drosera intermedia, D. tracyi, and Sarracenia purpurea x minor. My tracyi has been growing extremely well and fast, but the other two (especially the intermedia) is ...