Photo Gallery :: My Carnivorous Plants

[DavidY]

Venus Fly Trap flowering...

(Hey Kevin, the flowers are already blooming. Should I just go ahead and "nip it in the bud"?)

The Venus Fly Trap plant coming out of hibernation (notice the Daddy Longleg spider in one of the traps with its legs hanging out?)...


Sundew - Drosera capiensis...


North American Pitcher Plant - Sarracenia purpurea...


The trio growing on my deck...


Bamboo shoots I'm trying to grow from some cuttings one of my clients gave to me (I know they're not carnivorous but I'm on a roll here)...



A Tropical Pitcher Plants - Nepenthes Highland Species (these guys are much harder to grow and didn't survive the winter in the sunroom very well)...




Hibiscus flower...

[kmichael55]

wow that hibiscus flower is beautiful, and i'd love to have venus fly traps... do you feed them or do they live off insects that randomly find their way over there? (i don't know much about them...)

[industrial_girl_2000]

Man, what a cool collection you have! Yeah, tell us more about the venus fly traps. I always wanted to know more about those!

[DavidY]

When the plants are outside they manage to catch their own food without any problems. When I bring the VFT and the Sarracenia in during the late fall and winter I don't feed them since they need to wind down before they go into cold storage for the season. Then in spring I bring them back up to the sunroom in spring and wait for them to grow their new foliage again. By the time their mouths start forming, they are ready to go back out on the deck again.

The pitcher plants I will feed some tiny crickets occasionally during the cooler weather when I keep them indoors.

[turboturtle8]

Very beautiful plants David

[DavidY]

Thanks! (I still get a chuckle every time I see your avatar! I hope you never change it! )

[Tenodera]

Wow beautiful plants David!! Are the traps red inside? (can't tell from the picture)

Here's my late VFTs..hehe


and here's my late Nepenthes


Here's a cool succulent I have, faucaria felina


and here's my air plant.



I actually have tons more but these are my more exotic species

[DavidY]

Whoa, Kevin, very nice plants! I like that succulent, and your air plant looks a little like one of mine.

[scripta_elegans]

I wish I could grow plants. I kill even the hardiest species, and no one can figure out why..

[RunninWideOpen]

Wow, those are awesome! Good thing you don't have a signature listing all your pets....and plants, lol. it would take up a whole page.

[DavidY]

Yea I tried to make a signature once and I could never make it fit within the 255 character limit! lol!

[RunninWideOpen]

LOL, that's nuts. i look up to you. maybe someday I'll have my own "kingdom" hehe.