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.