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Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:45 pm
by Sarraceniacrazy
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:51 pm
by Aiko
Interesting. But I guess you only want to send them within the US?
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:31 pm
by Sarraceniacrazy
Aiko wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:51 pm
Interisting. But I guess you only want to send them within the US?
Yes, unfortunately I cant ship outside of the US
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Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:55 pm
by Aiko
Well, if you have seeds to trade too I am sure we can come to an interesting swap.
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:54 am
by Sarraceniacrazy
Aiko wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:55 pm
Well, if you have seeds to trade too I am sure we can come to an interesting swap.
I have seeds but I don't ship those outside of the US either
. Been real iffy about shipping and receiving outside the US since I got permits and had a few slip ups from importing plants and had the USDA people get mad at me.
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:17 pm
by Edwindwianto
Wow...what a nice carnivorous garden you have there
It brings back my old memory of 2012, when i still played with Nepenthes
Keep up the goodwork
EDWIN
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:41 pm
by Sarraceniacrazy
Edwindwianto wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:17 pm
Wow...what a nice carnivorous garden you have there
It brings back my old memory of 2012, when i still played with Nepenthes
Keep up the goodwork
EDWIN
Thank you Edwin!
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 2:52 am
by jerrytheplater
I know it has been over a year since this thread was active, but you have a wonderful collection of plants there. I also know its too late to send divisions now, but I'd be interested in a list of what you have for next year. Most of my plants are winter hardy S. purpurea. But I did buy S. psittacina, S. Scarlett Belle, S. leucophylla and S. leucophylla Tarnock, S. minor, S. flava seed grown from seeds collected in Sumatra, FL, I have a nice S. rubra subsp rubra collected legally in the NJ Pine Barrens as we were weeding out non native plants planted over 50 years ago.
Here's a video I made last year showing some of the blooms on my plants. Not the best of quality video.
https://youtu.be/8KNhdlKb5Zs
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:48 am
by Mrs.Green
Some years ago I had a few Sarracenias on the balcony. Don’t remember which ones but they was bought in a garden center so probably nothing very special. They thrived well on the balcony and boy did they catch prey! They were litteraly filled with bumblebees ! Much more than they would be able to ‘ingest’ I would belive. The local bumblebees obviously found them irresisting ( and fatal..). Anyone living outside their natural habitat with similar experiences?
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:52 am
by jerrytheplater
Mrs.Green wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:48 am
Some years ago I had a few Sarracenias on the balcony. Don’t remember which ones but they was bought in a garden center so probably nothing very special. They thrived well on the balcony and boy did they catch prey! They were litteraly filled with bumblebees ! Much more than they would be able to ‘ingest’ I would belive. The local bumblebees obviously found them irresisting ( and fatal..). Anyone living outside their natural habitat with similar experiences?
Maybe I'm a little slow in understanding, but I'm not understanding what you are asking: "Anyone living outside their natural habitat with similar experiences?"
Are you asking if anyone is growing pitcher plants outdoors in areas not in the normal range of the plants, and if so, are they finding that their plants are eating a lot of bugs?
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:32 pm
by Mrs.Green
jerrytheplater wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:52 am
Maybe I'm a little slow in understanding, but I'm not understanding what you are asking: "Anyone living outside their natural habitat with similar experiences?"
Are you asking if anyone is growing pitcher plants outdoors in areas not in the normal range of the plants, and if so, are they finding that their plants are eating a lot of bugs?
Hi Jerrytheplater
No, nothing wrong with you, entirely my fault! Hopeless sentence, I see that now! What I was trying to ask; I s there anybody who lives in areas/countries were Sarracenia’s do not grow naturally ( as in Norway f.ex.) , who have had the same experience as me? I kept them outdoors ( summer) and they got absolutely filled to the brim, so to speak ,with bumblebees!
I found that interesting , if these plants got that much ‘prey’ in the wild, I can’t imagine that it would be healthy for them? So, in their natural habitat, there may not be bumblebees or few of them? The Norwegian bumblebess obviously found them absolutely irresisting ( and deadly).
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 1:22 am
by jerrytheplater
Well, I live in the natural range of Sarracenia, the closest boggy area is the entire Pine Barrens area of southern NJ. I am sure pitcher plants lived much closer over 400 years ago. I have been in a bog located on the South Branch of the Forked River west of the Garden State Parkway and it was surrounded by very dry oak/pine forest. We were there weeding out non native pitcher plants and those that had hybridized with our native S. purpurea. The bog was also surrounded by thousands and thousands of very productive Blueberry bushes loaded with fruit. That means there were a lot of bumblebees there in the spring pollinating. Honeybees can pollinate, but Bumblebees do better. Don't know if any commercial beekeepers bring their hives down there to recover.
My pitchers catch lots of beetles, bugs, flies, wasps, etc. The pitchers do get up to 1/2 full and you will see the pitcher turning red in spots due to the large number of insects. Yellow Jackets can chew holes through the side of the pitcher in trying to escape.
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:56 pm
by Mrs.Green
jerrytheplater wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 1:22 am
Well, I live in the natural range of Sarracenia, the closest boggy area is the entire Pine Barrens area of southern NJ. I am sure pitcher plants lived much closer over 400 years ago. I have been in a bog located on the South Branch of the Forked River west of the Garden State Parkway and it was surrounded by very dry oak/pine forest. We were there weeding out non native pitcher plants and those that had hybridized with our native S. purpurea. The bog was also surrounded by thousands and thousands of very productive Blueberry bushes loaded with fruit. That means there were a lot of bumblebees there in the spring pollinating. Honeybees can pollinate, but Bumblebees do better. Don't know if any commercial beekeepers bring their hives down there to recover.
My pitchers catch lots of beetles, bugs, flies, wasps, etc. The pitchers do get up to 1/2 full and you will see the pitcher turning red in spots due to the large number of insects. Yellow Jackets can chew holes through the side of the pitcher in trying to escape.
Thank you Jerrytheplater
Interesting. As We don’t have that species of carnivorous plant here ( but several others) maybe the Norwegian bumblebees haven’t learned to stay away from tempting ‘flowers’..
But seriously, seeing all these bumblebees getting caught , is the reason why I didn’t bought more of them.
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:03 am
by SarrCrazy
Still have a few sarracenia I could trade if anyone is interested in them.
Re: Sarracenia(North American pitcher plant) divisions for trade
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 12:25 am
by jerrytheplater
I have seeds of Viola lanceolata, Xyris sp., and one that may be hardy by you: seeds of Sisyrinchium californicum. All collected this year and still waiting for more of the violets and Sisyrinchium to ripen and pop their seeds. And I have a dwarf growing Sphagnum moss which I collected in the Pine Barrens. It stays pretty compact. But it is much slower growing than the larger Sphagnum I have, which I am trying to discourage.