Pitcher in Bloom!

[kitfoxdrvr]

Sarracenia flava is always my first pitcher to bloom.  Here it is this year in wet gravel right against the pond:



Several other species/varieties have buds, but flava is always first.  The Venus Fly Traps are also sending up bloom stalks; hopefully I'll have pictures of them soon!

Steve

[miguynmkoi]

That is a very bold color flower.  I'm interested in Sarracenias.  When I get stuff settled I will look into them.  Nice picture.  Hope you share some of your other pitcher plants soon too.

[Argos5]

Steve, my sarracenia bloomed this year for the first time...I kept waiting for the flower to turn upright, but it never did...is that typical?

[kitfoxdrvr]

Argos5:

That is beatiful!  My flowers tend to droop until the petals (the part hanging down) dry up and seeds start developing.  Here is a pic of the same plant in my first post taken yesterday, about one week after the first:



They will stay in this position til I cut them off when they get ugly in about a month.

Steve

[Joyce]

GREAT pix Steve! 
The blooms always hang, never turn upright.
Where do you live in NC?
We used to live near Camp Lejeune, and Pitcher Plants were native grew wild all around our house in Midway Park.
There were red ones aka Sarracenia purpurea, yellow ones aka Sarracenia flava, Venus Flay Traps (Dionea muscipula),
Yellow Butterwort (Pinguicula lutea), Blueflower Butterwort (Pinguicula caerulea), Small Butterwort (Pinguicula pumila),
Roundleaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) and Yellow Bladderwort aka Utricularia olivacea. (and that's not all of them!)

I used to 'rescue' plants, including a lot of native swamp orchids too. 
When the roadside mowers used to mow the ditches and all these plants growing in them,
it made me sick!  :'(

[bunny56lbc]

I didn't know they bloomed . They're really cool looking .

bonnie

[kitfoxdrvr]

GREAT pix Steve! 
The blooms always hang, never turn upright.
Where do you live in NC?
We used to live near Camp Lejeune, and Pitcher Plants were native grew wild all around our house in Midway Park.
There were red ones aka Sarracenia purpurea, yellow ones aka Sarracenia flava, Venus Flay Traps (Dionea muscipula),
Yellow Butterwort (Pinguicula lutea), Blueflower Butterwort (Pinguicula caerulea), Small Butterwort (Pinguicula pumila),
Roundleaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) and Yellow Bladderwort aka Utricularia olivacea. (and that's not all of them!)

I used to 'rescue' plants, including a lot of native swamp orchids too. 
When the roadside mowers used to mow the ditches and all these plants growing in them,
it made me sick!  :'(

Joyce:

I actually live in Eden (pretty good home for an avid gardener, huh?, it is right outside of Greensboro), but it is funny you mention Camp Lejeune-I have spent the day there on business and am right outside the base as I type this!  You are right, This area is a bonanza for this group of plants.  I also did some preservation work on some of the limited wild Dionaea populations just south of Wilmington when I was in college.  I loved the work, but it makes you appreciate what damage poachers can do-locals were reluctant to tell us, even as university researchers, where the wild populations were.  I have not visited any of the sites I worked since the 80's-I hope they are still there!

Good for you on the rescue work-I am going to do the same with a group on a 30 acre tract near Asheville this fall.  There is a great wild azalea population in the way of a housing development that breaks ground next year.  I hope to get to keep a few specimens for my collection (the NC Arboretum is getting the pick of the litter).

Steve

[Ky Kim]

Those are really pretty.  So different.

Kim

[HOWELL]

sorry im new in all this and i got a new sarracenia flava and a darlingtona califo(cobra lily), but i just dont know what to do or hot to put them in the pond i would love to know how so, im sorry if im bothering but please i need some help

[Argos5]

I put mine in a floating planter and it has done very well...they can also be planted in a pond which has a "bog" area.

[HOWELL]

there is another thing argos thanks though but does you floating planter has holes or how do you water it, because they are supposed to not get normal water, so well hope im not bothering, well thanks

[Argos5]

Howell, they are commonly called "floating island planters" and you can buy them through the internet...water seeps into the planter through holes in the bottom and keeps the soil quite moist.

[HOWELL]

well thanks a lot
that was so helpful
im so happy that im getting some of them well ill post some pics as soon as i got them planted
and your pond and your floating planter was so cool and all your plants

[lorraine1960]

I just love this site...i see more gorgeous flowers and plants and i want to know and have them all.....its sad to know trading time is winding down till next year cause its so fun !!!!!!!!! and  ponder friends, like all of you are so awesome...its great to have so many people have the same passion as me because it is a passion for me and i'm out at the pond every evening and all day on weekends and i am constantly planning for next year as i'm sure all of you are...so thanks all of you for so much fun and pics and knowledge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lorraine

[Zac]

Very nice photos. Ours have trouble overwintering outside here in Ohio. Its just too cold for the species we grow (judith hindle, dana's delight, and scarlet bell).

Zac

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[jamis]

I have always been interested in carnivorous plants. very cool pictures.

[kitfoxdrvr]

Hard to believe it has been a year!  This guy is blooming again!

[RWinn]

this is my first bloom