Sundew Carnivorous Plant Video

This winter I lost all of my Sundew Carnivorous Plants that you see in this video!  Really breaks my heart and pocketbook to see this movie, as they look so lovely and dewy in the sunlight! Have a look at my Sundew carnivorous garden video.   

As the days get longer and the rest of my carnivorous plants get stronger, I will be taking more photos of them. Right now they look very bedraggled after over wintering outside under the plastic cover we made.  Of course, I mean my Pitcher plants, as they are all quite hardy, but they will spring back. Just hoping the Venus Fly Traps will too. :(  I did put them outside, but the smallest one has now disappeared and the bigger one is droopy.  They are such special needs plants!! But so wonderful to watch lol


  More about Sundews or Drosera, from Wikipedia:
Drosera, commonly known as the Sundews, comprise one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species. These members of the family Droseraceae lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which they grow. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, can be found growing natively on every continent except Antarctica.

Both the botanical name (from the Greek δρόσος: drosos = "dew, dewdrops") and the English common name (sundew, derived from Latin ros solis, meaning "dew of the sun") refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of each tentacle that resemble drops of morning dew.

Another video of North American Carnivorous Plants.

I could make these videos all day long, just love these plants, even though, lets be honest, a little gross when they eat the big bugs, but to get rid of fruit flies, nothing beats a sundrop, or even a pitcher plant!.

Carnivorous Plant Video

This is another video I made last summer.  Catch that spider and also the wasp who never comes back!  (I don't hate wasps, but hubby is allergic so...)  I can hardly wait until April 1 when I can start to put my Carnivorous plants back outside!  The danger of frost is gone from Vancouver (well lets hope, or else it will be another 10 pm scramble) and the plants need to get fresh air. I notice some of them underneath the plastic cover have some mold growing on them, so fresh air and sunshine is needed ASAP!!

Carnivorous Plants of North America is BACK!!

I'm BAAAAAACK

Well, I had a lovely little blog about carnivorous plants (mainly mine) and Google decided it was either spammy or just not making enough waves, so deleted.  After about a year, the name came up again, and so here we are lol!! I am happy to be back, as I have been really happy with the over wintering of my pitcher plants.  Mind you I live in Vancouver so a temperate type of area, with only snow for a few days, and barely any freezing. (Although barely is enough to kill all of my Venus fly traps if I had left outside)  I left the pitcher plants under a plastic cover all winter, and I just looked, and they look VERY happy... kinda.  Almost time to take the top off and let the sun shine in! Plus need a bit of cold for the Venus Flytraps to make sure they come back this summer.