Carnivorous plants

Sarracenia flava pitcher plant – “Feed me”

I could sit and watch pitcher plants all day as prospective food is constantly lured into the waiting pitchers.  Here’s the latest victim this week…a wasp, unaware that he’s the next meal for this hungry Sarracenia flava.  Pitcher plants are quite easy to grow, both in the ground and in containers.  In pots, we grow […]

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Sarracenia ‘Daina’s Delight’ flowering

Flowering now in the garden are the pitcher plants, and here’s a new photo of Sarracenia ‘Daina’s Delight’.  The flowers are truly other-worldly.  Pitcher plants are actually very easy to grow if you can provide full sun and fairly moist, acidic soil…just not soil that stays soggy.  In containers, grow them in straight peat moss

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2004 Plant Delights Nursery July Newsletter

June started with a bang as we welcomed Horticulture Magazine’s Great Plants, Great Plantsman Symposium to Raleigh. After a wonderful series of talks by speakers such as Tom Fischer (Editor, Horticulture Magazine), Helen Dillon (Ireland), Bob Lyons and Todd Lasseigne (JC Raulston Arboretum), and yours truly, Plant Delights welcomed 180 wonderful gardeners from around the

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