Picture of a Sarracenia with many mouths, one of them being extremely long. There’s also a banana for scale

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Buried an 80G trash can in the yard, made a water garden. Took a slightly smaller plastic window box, drilled holes in the sides and bottom, screwed it to the side.

    Transplanted Sarracenia and sundews are going nicely crazy. (I know, not legal to grab them out the wild, but I’m working on growing more and have reintroduced them to my swamp in the boonies.)

    BONUS: We got dragonflies hovering around! And the trees frogs are back! Love me some insectivores, plant or animal.

    • howler@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Indeed! And very effective!

      I use this one to catch flies and a sundew to catch smaller bugs. They make a great team

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Pitcher plants and sundews aren’t nearly as picky as fly traps. Those things evolved in a very particular environment, whereas pitchers and sundews are more forgiving.

          I kayak the local swamp, and sundews and pitchers go nuts in everyday direction of light. Serious. I was trying to judge which direction they thrived in, don’t matter. They grow robustly on every side of the stumps, north, south, shady, full sun, whatever. Just gotta stay wet(ish)!