Post by pinglover on Nov 3, 2008 14:39:47 GMT
I can't see your photo well enough to try to take a shot at identifying your little volunteer Drosera but my guess is that might not be a temperate Drosera from what little I can see. It might have come in as a hitchhiker with the plants you bought. I don't grow anything in the petiolaris complex, no pygmies, and no tuberous Drosera. I really don't grow any Drosera other than temperate species and even then I only grow the North American natives plus the real easy to grow capillaris so I can give it away. Other than that, I've grown binata because kids love those and they make really great hanging plants inside a home. Which reminds me, I gave away my last cuttings of binata and then I gave away the parent plant so I need to buy another one of those this coming spring. I miss that plant over my kitchen sink! It glistened in the sun and really made for a beautiful hanging plant for most of the year. That's basically the sum total of my Drosera growing experience so you need to re-post your photo over in the Drosera board to attract someone more familiar with the genus than me. In the interim, try here-
www.humboldt.edu/~rrz7001/
You might want to pot up or bareroot that filiformis and overwinter it somewhere else. I don't think that will make it out in your bog over winter.
The polygala lutea I am familiar with. That's a nice eastern native species. Depending on its provenance, it may or may not survive for you. I have some Spiranthes spp. in with some of my sarracenias. You might like the look of them intermixed with your CPs. Also take a look at Marshallia grandiflora (Barbara's Buttons).
Your VFTs may or may not make it. Some of mine can make it with a heavy layer of mulch and sufficient snow cover. Without the mulch and a decent layer of snow, they don't survive or they limp along and expire.
I cut down my tallest pitchers so there's no risk of them being uprooted by high winds in late fall and again in spring when I lift off the layer of mulch and I only do that after the pitchers have begun to get crunchy and brown. Anything that is still green is still photosynthesizing. Also too, don't cut down any phyllodia. I keep up with this and don't do it all at once because high winds can come along anytime. Right now, my bog already has the very first layer of pine needles on it. I have begun to layer already. All but the red oaks have been dropping their leaves so layer #2 is coming along nicely with no help from me. I'll toss another two inches or so of white pine needles down in about another week or so.
www.humboldt.edu/~rrz7001/
You might want to pot up or bareroot that filiformis and overwinter it somewhere else. I don't think that will make it out in your bog over winter.
The polygala lutea I am familiar with. That's a nice eastern native species. Depending on its provenance, it may or may not survive for you. I have some Spiranthes spp. in with some of my sarracenias. You might like the look of them intermixed with your CPs. Also take a look at Marshallia grandiflora (Barbara's Buttons).
Your VFTs may or may not make it. Some of mine can make it with a heavy layer of mulch and sufficient snow cover. Without the mulch and a decent layer of snow, they don't survive or they limp along and expire.
I cut down my tallest pitchers so there's no risk of them being uprooted by high winds in late fall and again in spring when I lift off the layer of mulch and I only do that after the pitchers have begun to get crunchy and brown. Anything that is still green is still photosynthesizing. Also too, don't cut down any phyllodia. I keep up with this and don't do it all at once because high winds can come along anytime. Right now, my bog already has the very first layer of pine needles on it. I have begun to layer already. All but the red oaks have been dropping their leaves so layer #2 is coming along nicely with no help from me. I'll toss another two inches or so of white pine needles down in about another week or so.
