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Post by trooperkris on Jan 6, 2015 13:06:14 GMT
Since this forum is where the experts are, I was wondering if anyone could answer my question. Is it possible to grow sarracenia outdoors year round? I live in Louisville, Ky, which is in hardiness zone 6a. In case they cannot handle those temperatures, for now I have them growing with the rest of my carnivorous plants in my unheated garage. I didn't want to risk leaving them out until I found out for myself, because that would make me feel like a bad 'parent'. Any advice would be amazing. thanks
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Post by ICPS-bob on Jan 6, 2015 18:15:39 GMT
Hardiness Zone 6a has an average annual extreme minimum temperature of -10 to -5 F (similar to New Jersey). If so, you should be able to grow S. purpurea outdoors. Perhaps Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station ( www.pitcherplant.org/) in Virginia would have good advice (although it looks like Meadowview is in Zone 7a).
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Post by jthompson9586 on Jan 7, 2015 0:46:24 GMT
I'm in 6b .. Cleveland and I've left plants out but covered heavily. . Check out this blog of a guy in new York zone6b.wordpress.com
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Post by Michael on Jan 7, 2015 23:34:51 GMT
I live in Anchorage, Alaska in where I'm a solid 4 - the longest I kept S. purpurea going outside year round was about 4 years. That was heavily covered/mulched and then had a good snow cover 2-3'. When I lost my last batch it was a year of low snow fall and lots of rain... And then there were the moose during the summer, but those are tales for another time. :-)
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Post by nevermore44 on Apr 2, 2015 21:36:27 GMT
Cincinnati area... outdoor bogs (covered in winter) for the past handful of really bad winters... all came through fine (sars, VFTs, dews)
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