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Post by petesredtraps on Jul 19, 2010 11:56:42 GMT
Of course I want a healthy plant, Aidan, but I'm sure you can understand the thrill of having something grow in your garden rather than in a pot.  Do you in any way protect your ceph's outside in the winter period? Protecting it could be rather simple. If I had a Ceph growing in the bog, I'd simply cover it with something like a Bell cloche. |
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Post by Aidan on Jul 19, 2010 18:01:31 GMT
...I'm sure you can understand the thrill of having something grow in your garden rather than in a pot. Actually no, I see no 'thrill' at all. I enjoy cultivating plants under conditions such that they will thrive, rather than at best struggle to survive. Good luck, though I very much doubt you have a hope in hell of success. |
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Post by kimbruun on Jul 20, 2010 7:51:43 GMT
...I'm sure you can understand the thrill of having something grow in your garden rather than in a pot. Actually no, I see no 'thrill' at all. I enjoy cultivating plants under conditions such that they will thrive, rather than at best struggle to survive. Good luck, though I very much doubt you have a hope in hell of success. Well, the thrill for me is having tried to grow VFTs and Sarracenia in my window sill countless times, and they always end up dieing on me because I can't provide dormancy indoors. So when my leucophylla began to show new growth and looking quite healthy after a particularly hard winter, I was so excited - this is the first succes I've had with this plant, which many say is not fully hardy in my zone. I know cephs live in a warmer zone than S. leucophylla, but my window sill ceph gave up the ghost in winter after having appeared strong in summer and autumn. I don't buy plants to kill them off, but I must admit, part of the fun for me is seeing just what exactly will grow for me in my climate - and I'm just starting out, after all. |
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Post by unstuckintime on Jul 20, 2010 17:22:17 GMT
If you are just starting out, why did you jump all the way to growing cephalotus? Something that might work for your conditions is Drosera binata.
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Post by kimbruun on Jul 21, 2010 7:29:38 GMT
If you are just starting out, why did you jump all the way to growing cephalotus? Something that might work for your conditions is Drosera binata. Already have that - and Darlingtonia californica, Dionaea muscipula (garden center and South West Giant), Drosera filiformis var. filiformis, Sarracenia (flava and leucophylla), and Pinguicula vulgaris. These are the ones that survirved the winter of 2009-2010 (I also had Sarracenia purpurea and psittacina, but I had bought them at a garden center, and they rotted away in spring). New this year are Sarracenia (purpurea, psittacina, and minor), Dionaea muscipula (B52), and Drosera filiformis var. tracyi. Also, seeds of Drosophyllum lusitanicum have germinated in a peat block in the bog (I tried the seeds several places, but only here they germinated). As for the ceph, I've read that some UK growers have had luck with it outside, so I thought: "What the heck, I want to make my own experiences." |
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Post by peterhewitt on Jul 21, 2010 10:21:33 GMT
Just remember, growers in the UK most likely grow outside in pots. Cephalotus is very sensitive to pathogens your Sarracenia's are well fortified against. This is why they are almost always,... not suitable in bog gardens.
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Do you in any way protect your ceph's outside in the winter period?
