Gardening With Carnivores: Sarracenia Pitcher Plants in Cultivation & in the Wild

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Summary: It's great for a budding Sarracenia enthusiast
Review: God knows there are enough of them out there.....The flowers are beautiful and even the seed pods have been mistaken for the flower on numerous occasions they are great plants.There isn't anything for a person who wishes to grow other cps besides the basics which transfer over to many american cps.

Great book but best checked out at a library.

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Summary: Make sure you eat all the bugs in your pitcher, dear
Review: Growing pitcher plants means GARDENING WITH CARNIVORES that add sculptured good looks and vivid colors to the garden while eating such pesty insects as wasps, flies, blowflies, and ants. Author Nick Romanowski is particularly interested in the purple pitcher species. For they grow in nontropical parts of Australia and New Zealand, as well as Canada and the northern United States, and much of Europe and Great Britain. They do best in outdoor bog gardens, where they can be grown by dividing their rhizomes, hand pollinating, or planting their seeds. Florists pay good money for cut pitchers and flowers, with the most sought-after species being the White. But Purples could take over what with ever more successful hybridizations. They are already seen as good investments for research dollars. For they remain carnivorous, but not of all bugs. In fact, they support thriving bug communities in their water-filled pitchers. They could bring in even lots more money once it gets around that they keep algae from growing. Just think what that could mean for the swimming pools and water bodies of the world!