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Post by insectivore on May 28, 2007 11:51:16 GMT -5
Yeah Hey Carl! I'll send you a clump of subulata that you sent me!!! I know you must be heartbroken for what you killed! Cya
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Post by Flytrap on May 28, 2007 17:16:45 GMT -5
Update on my outdoor bog and planters (late May 2007): D rotundifolia in outdoor bog (note small sarracenia flava germinating at lower right ) D rotundifolia on outdoor sphag mound with small rotunds that germinated earlier last month flavas in my bowl planter flavas and purpurea flava x rubra flowers in my bog overall view of my pond and lower level bog at right... ferns were naturalized, it helps to live in a westcoast rainforest
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Post by insectivore on May 28, 2007 17:25:54 GMT -5
Wow! Your Sarr's are gorgeous! Keep up the good growing! Cya
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Post by lloyd on May 28, 2007 20:28:19 GMT -5
A great garden and CP's.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 14, 2007 7:26:57 GMT -5
Nice place you have there, Flytrap...
My bog is kind of going okay... I may have lost a couple of sarrs, but most have come up.
I need to move the bog this summer, as half gets "okay" sun and the other half is now in shade for most of the day and those plants aren't too happy. The plants in the sun are doing great - nice robust growth... a couple of flava clumps have pitchers well above knee height from what I can see so far.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by vraev on Jun 14, 2007 10:43:08 GMT -5
wow david....real nice place there. But I guess when I get the chance to make my house..no chairs anywhere...ppl have to sit on the rocks...enjoy the quiet ambience. ...I will go a bit more on the wilder side. Something like this: A pure moss garden. Now that is relaxing.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jun 14, 2007 12:52:37 GMT -5
Looks real peaceful... I can just see you after making your fortune mass cloning a version of Nep. rajah that will grow on any windowsill, purchasing that tract of land and then finding out that you're allergic to spores >>> Rick <<<
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Post by vraev on Jun 14, 2007 13:09:18 GMT -5
lol!
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Post by insectivore on Jun 14, 2007 19:26:09 GMT -5
WOW.... Man... Thats nice.... My woods has moss everwhere like that but without the river... Cya
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Post by brian on Jul 29, 2007 8:19:44 GMT -5
Here’s what’s going on in my Bancroft bog. The temperature logger showed the coldest soil temperature last winter was minus 5 C, but since I have to put it in a jar to keep the water out it actually measures the average over about a 4 inch depth. Seems to be fine when there is snow cover or mulch, but if the bog is bare it won’t accurately tell you what surface rooted species were exposed to. Last December the usually “reliable” snow cover failed me. The local weather records showed the air temperature dropped to –35 C (as it sometimes does) but there was only a “trace” of snow on ground, so I assumed many plants were goners. There’ve been a few surprises since then. Of course the purps came back and flowered, they are spreading and self seeding nicely. The flavas not only returned but one flowered for me for the first time, nice yellow contrast to the maroon purp flowers. Their growth habit changed a bit though. Instead of one enormous pitcher and one or two small ones they each produced a bunch of medium size pitchers. These are awesome hardy outdoor plants for Canadians. The p vulgaris are back, I’m waiting for flowering. Everything happens slower up there, Mabudon complains about his slow Scarlet Belle but if mine survived I probably won't see the first pitcher until after Labour Day, just in time for winter.. Of the two hybrid pitchers I had one got uprooted and dessicated to death, the other shows colour with no real growth yet (same for the suspected rubra). I got a real shock a couple of weeks ago when I found the VFTs coming back. A lot smaller than last year and not flowering yet but both the Red Dragon and some typicals survived. Not only that but at least one tiny perfect seedling has sprouted! If they can self seed I may yet be able to keep a sustainable population of VFTs up there. I also finally have d. rotundifolia seedlings scattered about, I’ll post something under Sundews about how I got them growing. Still waiting on the gifts of plants and seeds I received last year but like I said everything is slower up there. Plus I have yet to get all the little weeds out.
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Post by lloyd on Jul 29, 2007 8:45:26 GMT -5
Amazing how the plants can survive those winters.
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Post by brian on Jul 29, 2007 9:47:12 GMT -5
I find it funny how VFTs survive up there but not in my Niagara Falls planter. Here they start to come back in the spring then turn to mush. Maybe it’s the water table (2” below ground here and 6” or more up there). Could be microclimate effects. Here the planter sticks up so it loses heat from top and sides. Up there the garden is a shallow depression. Also up there the bowl contour collects leaves, fall debris and maybe extra snow. Here the stupid skunk cage I have on it sheds stuff like that..
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Post by mabudon on Jul 29, 2007 9:52:30 GMT -5
I'm still trying to perfect VFT outdoor growin. The main thing that seems to kill them hereabouts (Brian lives about 10 minutes from me, just in case you are reading and didn't know) is the freeze/thaw thing, especialy when it involves drops from like 10-12 C in the daytime to -10 C or lower overnight- I think leaving the mulch on as long as you can bear to would help with this- that is what I'm gonna try this winter, I have 5 VFTs seeded about my bog, hoping that the "mass" of it will help regulate temps, AND I am going to mulch this year, last year was just a bit too much of a risk for me and I lucked out once, don't want to push it
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Post by brian on Jul 29, 2007 10:00:57 GMT -5
Ever think about alternate mulches? That was horrible to hear about the slugs in Rick's garden, I hope it recovered. Up North we see only the occasional slug (the Giant Mutant Up North Slug) but the mice and voles would nest in the mulch and riddle the bog with holes. Also we once talked about the problem of plucking out the mulch in the spring without pulling dormant plants. What about foamboard, or a leaf bag full of foam peanuts, something critter resistant and easy to remove?
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Post by mabudon on Jul 29, 2007 10:15:37 GMT -5
foamboard is not porous enough- seeing Jay remove his mulch singlehanded this spring, I'm gonna use his techinique- he chops down all the pitchers and covers the whole thing with chicken-wire (or hardware cloth), then adds the mulch- the whole deal just lifts right off, no hassle, I'm definitely going to do it like that this year
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