Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Lisa Marie Claire on June 04, 2007, 09:09:09 PM
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Does anyone successfully grow carnivourous plants outdoors in a boggy area up here?
I would love to grow them but im not sure if i would be able to .........................
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Where's here? Sarracenia purpurea has been naturalised on Rannoch Moor in north Perthshire. Native species will survive quite happily in boggy situations.
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Hi, Lisa,
I think you could certainly try some of the boggy bug eaters in Aberdeen.....Sarracenias etc. Droseras that are not native are a bit tender, I think. It might be a question of giving them a bit of winter overhead protection... there must be someone out there who has tried this in NE Scotland....
By the way, must phone you soon, got some opal stones for earrings need setting etc!
Maggi
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Hi sorry here is Mannofield Aberdeen!
Maggi i have just emailed Ian!
I am a lady of Leisure at the moment so anytime! ish! i can come to you or you can come to me and see my developing mess of a garden!
I am having a soakaway in my garden coming from the garage roof rainwater so i thought this would be ideal for carnivorous plants?
I went to the Planning department today and they say i can have a living roof ! how exciting! :) i have seen a specialist who sells sedum in rolls but im sure i saw a grand designs where they used other plants randomly!do you or does any one else know about this?
Glad to hear your getting better Maggi x
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I thought these were indoor and i have one which is now outside (Sarracenia purpurea) i got it in Amsterdam ! i think it will do better outside!You live and leaRN ;D
Are there other succesfull grown types in Aberdeen?
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Drosera rotundifolia at Hothfield National Nature Reserve in Kent.
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Ian is establishing Pinguiculas on a mossy rock in the middle of our pond. The first is starting to flower but hard to get a photo.
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I have got wet feet photographing sundews in the Cairngorms in the past.
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All the native Drosera and Pinguicula would be comfortable. Then you could have the Sarracenia, particularly the ones forming winter phyllodia. If you're prepared to mulch over winter. S.minor and S. psittacina are worth a try but may be a little suspect otherwise. Darlingtonia is another that will take very low temperatures and they like wet feet. The rest of the European Pinguicula are also worth a try.
There's plenty to go at and the Sarracenia are interesting on a summer's evening when they start singing or is that humming? ;D
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Sarracenia purpurea has been introduced to, and thrives on, Rannoch Moor, and other places.
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Sarracenia purpurea has been introduced to, and thrives on, Rannoch Moor, and other places.
And hopefully will be removed.
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I went to the Planning department today and they say i can have a living roof ! how exciting! :) i have seen a specialist who sells sedum in rolls but im sure i saw a grand designs where they used other plants randomly!do you or does any one else know about this?
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Hi Claire, you can grow anything on your roof. It is just to use your creativity!
Here's my shed roof (2011). I have several kinds of plants there (more now than in the picture from 2011) and especially saxes do very good.
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Here's a Rannoch plant 1 metre across http://www.ipernity.com/doc/afwrite/18094863 (http://www.ipernity.com/doc/afwrite/18094863) and an article about invasion of alien plants, including the Rannoch Moor pitchers http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/invasion-of-the-alien-plants-1.188093 (http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/invasion-of-the-alien-plants-1.188093) .
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Pinguicula ‘Hanka’ (zecheri x rotundiflora)
We have very warm autumn this year and it's in the third blooming season now.
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The people who have introduced foreign plants to Rannoch Moor also should be planted there.
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Is there not a southern and northern form of Sarracenia purpurea? The latter being a slimmer less hairy form than the former which I grow protected. The northern form is supposed to be hardier, but I have no experience of both to compare.
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Sarracenia purpurea has two subspecies, S. purpurea subsp. purpurea, and S.purpurea subsp. venosa. The latter is the more southern form of the species. It can be distinguished from subsp. purpurea by the following traits: Outer surface of pitchers is pubescent. Pitchers are shorter in length than those in the northern race.
As for carnivorous plants to try in Scotland, I would think several of the southern trumpet pitcher plants would thrive. I grew them outdoors in pots when I lived in Vancouver BC. Sarracenia flava, and Sarracenia leucophylla both make a real statement in the garden. I didn't venture as far as to try the Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) outside year round , but there are reports of it surviving year round in coastal southern British Columbia.
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Just over two years ago, we brought home a small Nepenthes in a 4 inch pot. Our little plant has thrived... Nepenthes x Miranda has graduated to a 30 cm pot, grown to a current height of 1 meter, and the latest pitcher to open, measures 30 cm from base to the base of the lid. We still don't know if Miranda is female or male. Parentage is also still under debate (most say it is Nepenthes x mixta {which is N. maxima x N northiana} crossed with N. maxima). In any event, Miranda certainly makes a statement.[attachimg=1]
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Best not stand too close if she's hungry, Gordon!