Green Swamp, North Carolina

[jfowler]

On May 3, I took the time to visit a little-known savannah in the Green Swamp, Brunswick County, NC. The location is known as Myrtle Head Savannah, and is managed by The Nature Conservancy. This past winter, they conducted a "hot" burn which resulted in depressing the grassy competition for a year or two. The Sarracenia are at their best after a prescribed burn, and this year is no exception.

Here is a link to the gallery of this visit:

www.pbase.com/jimfowler/20080504greenswamp

Here is a photo to whet your appetite:

S. flava var. cuprea

[ralph]

Well....god job you did!
absolutely stunning pix you took.

I'm living in Beijing China.so I'm quite curious about its claim,is there some windy?or wind weather here???or normally no wind all year round?

Thank you.
Regards

[Brian Barnes]

Nice pics! The bog looks in wonderful shape and the pitchers are quite healthy as well...
Thanks for sharing with us.
Happy Growing,
Brian.

[jfowler]

Ralph,

Along the immediate coast, North Carolina is moderately windy all year long. In fact, that area is where the Wright Brothers tested their new invention, the airplane. The Green Swamp is twenty miles or so inland from the coast and does not suffer from the winds as much.

[jfowler]

Drosera5150,

The location is more a moist savannah rather than a bog. In fact, it does become fairly dry during the heat of the summer, but the water table is quite high, so the plants do not suffer unduly. I live about six or seven hours from the Green Swamp, but I'm always eager to make a trip whenever I discover that the burn crew has made a prescribed burn a few months previous. The carnivorous plants always seem to react positively to the burns -- Sarracenia, Drosera, Pinguicula, and Dionaea. Actually, they also do well with close mowing under power line right-of-way, provided that it's not at the beginning of the growing season when the new pitchers are just coming up.