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[image alt text: Two small plastic pots sit in a square tupperware container full of distilled water. In the pots are the pitcher plant and butterwort. The pittcher plant has about a dozen small pitchers, all light green with red staining. The butterwort is a small rosette of pale green leaves.]

Both ordered from Secret Garden Plants on Etsy. I'm very happy with both.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Good luck with both of them. I found the Pinguicula and Drosera easy and all other carnivorous plants I had difficult. I'm not sure if I had a Sarracenia though.

Edit: I had a Sarracenia Psittacina, but this looks quite different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm technically in the native range for both so they should hopefully not be too difficult to grow. Once they're hardened off to full sun they will be transplanted into a pot with one of my existing Sarracenia.

S. psittacina is an amazing plant. I think I'm a little north of its range unfortunately. The two Sarracenia I have are an S. flava and S. leucophylla, and they can handle a frost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's interesting. I never thought about putting them outside, since I'm not in the natural range of most of them. However, some variants of Pinguicula and Drosera grow in Austria although I've never seen one in nature here - I saw some Drosera in Estonia. Like I said, I found these easier to handle although my variant of Pinguicula rather was from middle america than Europe. But I learnt that there is even a variant of Sarracenia which grows in Switzland although it is not natural there.

However, I'm not good with plants, so I'm not a benchmark at all. But carnivorous plants always fascinated me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I had no idea there were carnivorous plants in Europe. Time for me to go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.