My plants are waking up. I love spring!

In warmer climates native carnivorous plants begin to break dormancy in early March.  Flowers and leaves may emerge a month later in cooler climates.  If you haven’t trimmed your pitcher plants’ old leaves now is the time; it is easier before there are new leaves.

Sarracenia leucophylla “tarnok” flowers are beginning to open in the greenhouse.  We simulate an early spring.  The plants break dormancy a few months early so they will look good for the spring festivals!

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In addition to the forking sundew we’ve offered in the past, this year we’re trying a new forking sundew.  Its leaves are 6 inches long and fork once.  It grows readily from seed and is called Drosera binata “small red form”.  We’re also growing an “all red” variety of cape sundew.  You can check it all out in the slide show below.