I mentioned in two previous posts that I had bought three carnivorous indoor plants the other day while mooching around the greenhouse of the Royal Horticultural Society shop at Harlow Carr, near Harrogate. While the idea of them being carnivorous is reminiscent of The Little Shop of Horrors and the most famous carnivorous plant of them all, the Venus Flytrap, my three little plants—
Drosera capensis,
Drosera capensis alba, and this Sarracenia smoorii, below—are really quite pretty.
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| Sarracenia Smoorii, a pitcher plant |
Sarracenia smoorii has a different way of feeding than the Drosera capensis. Find out
more detail about Sarracenias here (Wiki)
Growing Sarracenia (carnivorousplants.org)
As these are bog plants, I have placed my three specimens together in a large plant-pot saucer.
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| Sarracenia Smoorii (left), Drosera capensis Alba (front), and Drosera capensis (background)
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