I got them as they are weird and I always wanted to see if I could grow them. Turns out the ones I have are actually pretty easy to care for. They need a lot of light and are fine with the temperatures we have outside during the summer. They come inside into a sunny window for the winter. Their ability to actually catch a bunch of things is a big bonus. You can pick up some small ones from Lowe's/Rona whatever it is now. Give them the right conditions and they will grow pretty fast. I got some of mine, the bigger ones, from a speciality store in Quebec and one nearby in Kingston. Rose Cafe in Drummondville has a big selection of carnivorous plants and also lots of other things. The store at the botanical gardens in Montreal has some too. I know there’s a couple of stores in the GTA that specialize in these as well.
I have some other plants as well such as saracenia and drosera. These are a bit different. The only one I’m having an issue with is a Venus fly trap.
Edit: the vining pitcher plants are called Nepenthes. There’s lowland and highland ones. I have the easier ones to look after.
We have got stinging nettles in our garden somehow. That’s been an interesting surprise at times.
I’m experimenting with repotting the house plants that are currently outside into a semi-hydroponic medium of clay pebbles. I want to see if they grow better and also this way I'll get less outside bugs inside. 10lbs of the clay pebbles are $34 on Amazon. I put sphagnum moss on the top of the pots and they look pretty neat and the plants seem stable. Bonus is the pots are way lighter now too. I bought a 10 pack of self watering orchid pots of Amazon too.
We have got stinging nettles in our garden somehow. That’s been an interesting surprise at times.
I’m experimenting with repotting the house plants that are currently outside into a semi-hydroponic medium of clay pebbles. I want to see if they grow better and also this way I'll get less outside bugs inside. 10lbs of the clay pebbles are $34 on Amazon. I put sphagnum moss on the top of the pots and they look pretty neat and the plants seem stable. Bonus is the pots are way lighter now too. I bought a 10 pack of self watering orchid pots of Amazon too.
Go light with any fertilizer as your medium will have very little buffering also the salts will build up and you might want to give it at least one good rinse over the winter period.
Go light with any fertilizer as your medium will have very little buffering also the salts will build up and you might want to give it at least one good rinse over the winter period.
For now I’m just using some leftover fertilizer from my miracle grow aero gardens. A capful in the reserve water and a capful put in from on top. I don’t plan on adding any more until I start to see some decent growth.
This was $40 shipping for a bunch of plants. Understandable as it’s expedited and the discount made it a bit easier to swallow. I ordered 4 different things that I’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else.
Gardening adjacent
Myself and other volunteers spent two hours last Saturday at a private orchard harvesting apples. We were able to harvest almost 900 lbs. They were donated to the Orangeville foodbank
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