With the summer of 2016 winding down, we finally had a chance to work on the area directly behind greenhouse #4. Specifically, we built a new 42 feet long carnivorous plant water table. This growing area will accommodate our staple carnivorous plants such as S. Carolina Yellow Jacket, S. leucophylla Tarnok and King Henry Venus Fly Trap. The carnivorous plant water table will be part of a circulating water system. It will receive it’s water from an adjacent cp growing table and return the water to the neighboring rainwater pond. The area directly below will be used to display our 2017 lotus stock plant collection. For now, the lower wall makes an ideal display area for a few of our 2016 lotus plants.
The project made use of wall stone from an auctioned off pond at a local garden center, which closed 3 years ago. The blocks have been sitting in our parking lot during this time waiting to be used once again. Many thanks to our staff at Bergen Water Gardens who helped to move the 120+ wall stones and 16 tons of gravel!
Currently we are growing the following carnivorous plants from tissue culture. Most of the carnivorous plants, especially American Pitcher Plants, will be available in 2017.
- Sarracenia ‘Bug Bat‘
- Sarracenia ‘Carolina Yellow Jacket’
- Sarracenia x Catesbaei
- Sarracenia x ‘Dana’s Delight’
- Sarracenia ‘Fat Chance’
- Sarracenia ‘Green Apache’
- Sarracenia ‘Judith Hindle’
- Sarracenia leucophylla compacta
- Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’
- Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa red
- Sarracenia Red Apache
- Sarracenia x Scarlet Belle
- Sarracenia Sylwia
- plus assorted other Pitcher Plants
A few Venus Fly Traps:
- Dionaea muscipula ‘Akai Ryu’ (Red Dragon)
- Dionaea muscipula x ‘King Henry’
- Dionaea muscipula #2
Visitors might also spot a few sundews, butterworts and Nepenthes in the future.
Don Grove says
I bought two pots of sarracenia plants from you this past spring. I am trying to remember how I am suppose to winterize them. Could you please remind me. Thank you
Larry Nau says
Don, At this point if the pitchers are dead you can cut them off, do not remove any new flat leaves. We bring ours into an area that goes down to the upper 30s to close to 32. They need to go dormant for at least 3 to 4 months. WE start to bring ours outside about April here in Churchville. You do not want to try to keep them growing under lights as that will gradually weaken the plants. I will mention some people down South actually unpot them, wrap in plastic and store them in a refrigerator