We have a ton of amazing sculptures throughout the nursery! I have a little tour of them in our video queue 😃

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I was tripping balls. I was like omg you’d have to feed that thing kittens 😂🤣😂😅

@@California_Carnivores Where can we buy the flytrap sculpture from?

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Thank you so much! 😄

Do it! Just did!

I was at a yard sale recently, they had a small fish pond that had a crack in the bottom so I didn't get it. After I got home I started hearing about bog gardens and wish I would of gotten it to make one myself

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I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

Lol peter seems nice, can believe he remembered me

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I understand that feeling 😂

Alas, mine took an extra week in the mail, and all the hitchhiking utricularia died. The main plants were a bit rough after the delay, but have recovered nicely.

@@arvetis I wouldn't lose hope, they can often return from unvisible seeds. Especially the common u. subulata. (Purple and yellow tiny flowers)

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Thank you for your order! 😆

This is quite cool indeed ! Cheers. 👍

😂 those sculptures are great! We get so many comments on them!

We have a little star moss that naturally grows from spores in many of our pots!

Check out the video all about our carnivorous plant sculptures!

You can bare root it if you’d like but you don’t have to. You can chonk it straight into the bog, soil and all of you don’t want to disturb the roots.

They’re really interesting plants in that they can do well in a huge range of conditions. They’re native to South Africa and don’t mind being outdoors in many areas of the United States. They can tolerate brief freezes in winter, dying back and then regrowing from the roots.

Thank you! Unfortunately we can’t make modifications to the bog kit

The moss grows in naturally over time because there are lots of spores for it everywhere in the nursery! Peat is just a great starter for it 😄

You can put capensis in it and spatulata but aliciae is not terribly cold hardy!

@@California_Carnivores okay. Thank you!👍🌱🙂

We do repot them but usually wait until we see significant soil loss from rain, crowding from plants or plant die back. Around every 5-7 years!

We may have one or two floating around! I’ll have to look in spring, when they’re growing!

@@California_Carnivores perfect!!! This will be my first spring with my carnivores! I can’t wait!!!

You can grow them outdoors in your area year round. You will want to put them where they get full morning sun but a little protection from the afternoon sun in Sacramento. And in the height of summer make sure to always keep the water saucer full.

What about in Bakersfield? 🥵

You can fill a pot a little too full so they overcrowd each other and the flytraps don’t get enough sun. Or you’ll have to repot it really soon to allow more space. It would be hard to say how many plants is too many because they can all vary by size a lot. But you’ll want two inches at least between plants!

You can bring it inside to a sunny, unheated room or garage where it can hang out until temps are over freezing! Check out our videos on dormancy!

I would rinse the rocks before use but they should be safe to use after that!

Check out this video on winter dormancy in warm climates 😊 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNKZpt10tNeuhHk.html

We always compact it because it’s so wet and it naturally will settle an incredible amount in the pots, leading to roots and crowns being exposed. We do apply a foliar fertilizer once a month during the growing season. We prefer diluted Maxsea!

It’s good to give them a few inches around so they have room to grow but you can move them closer together if you’d like. You can add seeds!

Yes, you want to fill the pot up fairly well with the soil!

We get ours from a nursery supply place but try Greenhouse Megastore for the pots! The saucers can be hard to source.

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You can definitely grow these outdoors and they prefer to be outdoors if possible. You’ll want to make sure the saucer is always full of distilled or R/O water on those hot days. We’re in zone 9b and it can get into the 100s in the summer here as well, as long as we keep our plants well watered, they’re happy.

We use domestic sphagnum moss by mosser lee

@@California_Carnivores thank you a lot, helped me out a ton :)

We use Sunshine Brand peat moss - the most important factor is that it is fertilizer free. You can find it at Home Depot

@@California_Carnivores thank you

Temperate sundews do die back for winter dormancy and even Cape sundews will die back in winter and then regrow again from the roots!

I would start with a 6” deep pot for larger Sarracenia but if they’re quite large you may want to double that. They don’t require lots of root space but will appreciate it if you provide it.

We’ve never lined the tops of our temperate pots with moss. We haven’t had issues with algae and that may be because we are in such a sunny and dry climate

It’s a sculpture that was made for a collaboration we did with the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers!

If you let the trays dry out for a day the mosquito larvae will die back. Or you can add Mosquito BTs to the water. You can grow Cape sundews indoors really happily year round

For that I would suggest cape sundews or Mexican butterworts!

It’s domestic milled sphagnum moss. We don’t sell the moss or rocks but you can find them at many hardware stores or nurseries!

Yes!

@@California_Carnivores thank you

Mosquito bitttt is terminator for mosquito

It’s a sculpture that was made for a collaboration we did with the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers!

We’ll be adding them to our website this weekend! 😊

@@California_Carnivores subspecies purperea or venosa?

@@monke1919 Some of each!

Unfortunately no, we rotate through what looks best and is available

Unfortunately boiled water won’t reduce the minerals and salts that carnivorous plants dislike, heavily filtered water is best!

Sometimes that’s totally normal but it can also be a sign that it needs more sunlight or airflow.

Thank you! We should have them again in a few weeks! I’m just waiting for the plants to break dormancy more fully and then I’ll restock…basically everything on the website 😂

No, we don’t have any rectangular ones but you can find some great plastic, rectangular pots online!

I would soak it for a few days in distilled water to leach out anything like that built up salts it may have!

@@California_Carnivores Thanks!

It’s a big sculpture!

You can!

@@California_Carnivores awesome!!!!! Thank you so much

Would it be best to just use half the seeds in each pack I have (5) and grow the rest in separate pots that’s what I really want to do

@@thec-garshow8253 that’s what I would do!

The wind can knock tall Sarracenia pitchers over so you may want to stake them up!

It’s a sculpture that was made for a collaboration we did with the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers!

You can often find them on Amazon listed as 12” panterra bowls

@@California_Carnivores You are the best! Thank you so much :)

Temperate plants don’t tend to do as well indoors but you can try it! Make sure you give them a chilly winter dormancy as well.

@@California_Carnivores thanks for the reply. I take care of reptiles now, some that need 110 on one side of tank and 80 on the other, most of the year then a brumation period where it's 70-80 for a few months. They need heat bulbs, uva and uvb bulbs and all that too. So I was just wondering if a heart lamp and some uv could work then during the needed cold months I could put them outside. We don't get below 20 very often.

@@California_Carnivores obviously if get plant specific lighting, but I was just saying I am not adverse to changing it up to the plants needs, as I do it for a couple pets now .

@@joshuaglaude1549 The temperate plants can be grown indoors but they like full sun, good airflow and lots of live insects. Because the Sarracenia can be quite tall and the flytraps and sundews quite short, it can be hard to get the grow lights to be strong enough and close enough to the plants without burning the Sarracenia pitchers. In the winter you’ll need to expose them to colder temperatures and shorter photo periods to trigger winter dormancy. I have a whole video on this in my feed!

@@California_Carnivores thanks. I'll have to do them outside then if I want to do any. Thanks for the info.

All of the plants in this bog are temperate and require a chilly winter dormancy so they can be grown the same 😊

That’s a great project! It’s hard to know what to use for a tray. You could do a non-draining bog instead. That may be easier than finding a tray. It’s hard to estimate how many plants to put into it. I would say that each flytrap, drosera and ping will take up about 3” of space to start and then steadily grow in. The Sarracenia can really vary in size but I would assume they will take up more like 4” of space each.

@@California_Carnivores thank you. What would a non draining bog look like? Would I just fill it with tons of spag moss and perlite and plug the drainage wholes? Also thank you for giving me spacing as that can help me figure out how much would be needed.

@@christinabenner1272 check out our other bog making video that is all about non-draining bogs: How to Build a Carnivorous Plant Bog kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbR3mN2q09LccZ8.html

@@California_Carnivores thank you I definitely will

Maybe a cattle water trough will work?

It’s a big sculpture!

Not that we’ve seen…yet 😉

I'm going to try Hydroponically in a hydrogen tent The 400 walk light bulb Do you think I'm crazy

@@johnstone9112 we haven’t really experimented much with hydroponic growing so you’ll have to keep me posted!

That’s a really cool sculpture!

Yes! They like rain; I would just remove the water saucer during the rain so that the water can flow out and not flood the pot.

You could grow some mixed tropical plants together in a terrarium!

You can grow temperate plants indoors, under grow lights but it is a bit hard. They need a chilly winter dormancy as well. There are easier plants like Highland Nepenthes, Cape sundews and Mexican butterworts which grow indoors really happily

Our methods are based on 30 years of growing experience; we’ve experimented with many different soil mixes and watering methods over the years. We also have customers all over the US, so we get great feedback from them on what works across different growing zones. You can grow your plants beautifully in different mixes, but our recommendations are based on what we do in the nursery and what works best for most people in most growing zones. 😊

@@California_Carnivores With all due respect, and I mean no disrespect because I'm a novice and you may well be sincere, but I don't work off of "we know best". If I did that in the aquarium hobby, or any hobby really, I'd have spent hundreds more dollars than I have and probably not had better results, or I'd just not engage in certain hobbies at all because I don't have the money. I was rather hoping for explanations, honestly.

@@WhatIsMisophonia I can definitely appreciate wanting to know the reasoning behind recommendation (I’ve also grown a planted in aquarium for a decade so I know that hobby as well). Our advice is based on a lot of experiments at the nursery and hands on experience over thirty years of planting and growing thousands of plants. Some of what we recommend is just because it works best from all that observed experience, if that makes sense. You can grow your plants in long fibered sphagnum but we don’t recommend it for a few reasons. All of our advice has to apply to most people in most growing conditions which is variable. Additionally we don’t find the temperate plants to grow any better in it than the peat and it is cost prohibitive. It tends to dry out faster so many people have a hard time keeping their plants wet enough and kill them. You can definitely grow flytraps in long fibered sphagnum moss beautifully but it’s just not something we do or recommend. If you’re curious as to why we recommend a lot of what we recommend, check out our book The Revised Savage Garden. Peter writes a lot of great background information on reasoning behind certain growing methods!

That’s one of our fun sculptures!

We only use terracotta for the Dewy Pines, but this is actually a plastic pot that looks terracotta 😊

It’s a sculpture 😄

@California_Carnivores 😆 love it! Not gunna lie my first thought is I had no idea they could get that big 🤣

You can definitely grow them in pots with no drainage, they like very wet soil so it’s likely the pot was made with no drainage holes!

It’s a sculpture!

That’s a giant sculpture 😄