Good news everyone, I’m here to share the joys of CP!
NOOOOOOOOOO! I’m talking about Carnivorous Plants!
I have always been fascinated with carnivorous plants but they are pretty hard to find locally, especially if you’re looking for a specific plant family. They are widely available online, with some stores that cater to specific plants, although I am pretty reluctant to buy it online mainly because I’m worried about the condition of the plant when I recieve it.
I currently have three pots with three types of plants:
| Sarracenia Rubra also known as the Sweet Pitcher Plant. Dionaea Muscipula is the common Venus Flytrap. Drosera Capensis, commonly known as the Cape Sundew plant. |
My first carnivorous plant was a Venus Flytrap I found at the 99 cents store about a year ago. I call him Chompy. He’s a pretty healthy one, blooming several flowers about every two months. I found another one, Junior, earlier this year, but I was really hoping to get a color variation “Akai Ryu” and a giant mouth variation and plant them all in a pot.
I’m really looking for these two types of pitcher plants: Nepenthes Rajah, Nepenthes x Ferrugineomarginata. I find the Sarracenia family a little bit too bland for my tastes, but beggars cant be choosers. I called it Mario cause it reminds me of the pipes in the Super Mario Bros. game.
Sundews are beautiful plants, and I had an obsession to look for them ever since I found one being sold at a local OSH. At a local nursery, some carnivorous plants were being sold, but most were in terrible condition, most are dried up and are dead or dying. I bought Lucky just in the nick of time, it was the healthiest of the sundews I found there, with just a few leaves dried up and the stalk being mostly green.
These plants are almost as fun as any furry pet. Sure you cant play fetch with it or would need to clean up after it, but watching it grow and catch/forcefeeding it inscects are pretty fun.
— 09/17/09 Edit —
I really love sundews, they’re very pretty plants, especially in the mornings. Cartman, true to his name, is really getting fat. Lucky on the other hand, is doing very well. He is sprouting new leaves, though not as fast as Cartman is. Lucky, however, is sprouting a new flower stalk! Yay! It wasn’t there yesterday, so he sprouted that sometime today. I’m really excited to see it bloom, the Cape Sundew flowers are reportedly very beautiful when they bloom.
