Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Martin Tversted on July 07, 2012, 07:24:41 AM
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Growing Sarracenias outside in Denmark with no extra summer heating requires a lot of patience and the right plants. Often they dont start to grow until medio May and this year it was end May. We have had the coldest June in 20 years so its first now end June, that they have started to have matured pitchers.
In winter, in my area we saw temperatures on serverel occations down to minus 24C and for half an hour even minus 30C.
We live on the edge of old heath land and simply use the garden soil for growing the plants in.
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Drosera intermedia from North Carolina.
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Drosera filiformis filiformis, also from NC
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Some of the Sarracenias growing in the pond bog.
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Sarracenia flower, Nympheas in the back ground.
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VFTs are also hardy garden plants, Sarracenia seedlings in the foreground.
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Picture from the gardenbog, the plant is S. purpurea purpurea from Ontario,
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And its flower, oh, what a flower!
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Sarracenia oreophila, rare in the wild but very easy in cultivation, here in its red form.
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Sarracenia flava from North Carolina
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A very complex hybrid involving both oreophila, flava and purpurea!
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This is the bog garden. The net in the background is to prevent black birds from destroying my Drosera collection.
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This one is S catesbaei x purpurea from a naturalised danish population of Sarracenia hybrids.
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This ones also brought home of the wild population.
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S flava maxima, from Virginia, not the lack of any red in the pitchers.
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From the bog pond, a matured S oreophila.
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S purpurea purpurea heterophylla, a purpurea free of any red.
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This picture is from medio June, showing a big S flava in bloom before the leafs have unfolled.
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S hybrid flower.
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Various leafs comming up, note the Lobelia cardinalis, also a canadian from Kristl.
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Wonderful, Martin! Thanks for sharing!
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Martin , you have a super range of plants there. Great to see how good they look, in spite of the late season you are having.
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Another stunning plant, a red S oreophila
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Many Erica species likes it wet and acid.
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S alata x oreophila. The pure species alata is not hardy here, too cold summers!
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Leucophylla is another one not hardy here, here its mixed up with more hardy genes....
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These are promising! A wide range of colors. S purpurea purpurea from a population in Nova Scotia with lots of anthocyanin free plants.
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Narthecium ossifragum, beautiful little monocot flowering mid summer.
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Narthecium ossifragum is one of my all time favourite wildflowers in Scotland. I have tried it from seed several times but never succeeded. I just love it - it has brightened my day to see it in the sunshine in Martin's picture..... brings back so many memories of this flower in the wild in past years.
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Hei Martin
Flott myrhage du har! Excellent bog garden you have!
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Martin, I forgot to ask, are you interested in wild collected Erica purpurea from my place?
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Aren't those Sarracenia flowers amazing, and such a deep colour on the red one. Wow :o
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Carnivorous plants and in particular Droseras and Sarracenias are really something else. They are one of the highlights of summer and their shape and colorations are so different from other plants. If you can find the space, create a bog in your garden. After last nights rain the swallows came to bath in the water betwin the Sarracenias. And when you come close to the pichers you can hear the sound of 1000s of insects humming as they stand on each others shoulders in the pitchers, waiting for their turn to die.... ;)
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I'm very impressed with your plants Martin - and even more impressed with the sunshine! :D
I've tried Sarracenias here before and found that they tend to suffer badly from slug/snail damage. Do you have much problem with that? I would have to admit that my attempt at a bog garden is rather small - just a waterproofed half barrel sunk into the ground so the slugs don't have to travel very far across a wet environment, but I would love to have another go.
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No, the ultimate pest in the bog is black birds...
i dont have a problem with snails as I live in heath land with a rather sandy soil. Appearently not this year but we use to have many weeks of drought which narrows the snail species down to smaller species with snails and they prefer susannes lupinus or some of her other garden plants.... Also the bog is surrounded by gravel and dry sand as I have yuccas and mesembs growing there.
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Fantastic plants Martin, growing beautifully, :o 8) 8). Hope you can keep showing us these.
Apologies to everyone for being so obvious once again, but I couldn't resist, ;D ;D ;D :-[
One Foot In The Grave - The Plant In The Downstairs Toilet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfrYERbDJA#)
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Thank you for the kind words. The large bog is only 14 Months old, the pond two years. Im sure they both will develope nicely n the future though I most likely will be in space problems soon. The goal in the large bog is to have the sphagnum moss to cover it all as it will insulate better around the rhizomes and the black birds dont seem to dig into it, only bare ground.
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It looks to me like they will very quickly forms large clumps. They will be spectacular if you can acheive this, :o :o. I think the sphagnum will spread quickly if conditions are good. I hope you can acheive a wonderful large stand of these incredible plants. :)
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Well, if I had the space I would make the bog 3-4 times larger to include all the plants I have in pots, but that would be in the next house where I imagin to have much more space :)
Here are a few others that grows well in the bog:
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Calla palustris, growing tooo well.
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I have 3 species that seems to do well of Dactylorhizas in there. Will sow some seeds and hopefully have more to plant out soon.