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FREE: 20+ Incredibly Unique carnivorous Pitcher plant seeds + Bonus Bulb / Tuber - Eats Bugs in Garden!!

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The listing, 20+ Incredibly Unique carnivorous Pitcher plant seeds + Bonus Bulb / Tuber - Eats Bugs in Garden!! has ended.

This auction is for 20+ seeds.
I am including a bulb tuber root for this plant too.
Perennial plant
Perhaps the Pitcher plant is the most mysterious leaf in the whole wide universe. With its unique ability to obtain food, it has inspired multitudes to reshape their concept on how nature really works.
Beautiful and easy to grow, American Pitcher Plants may be the most ravenous and underappreciated plants in horticulture. The bizarre and often handsome leaves can sometimes catch thousands of nasty insects such as ants, flies, and wasps. Their flowers are showy, brilliant and very unusual -- a wonderful bonus to an already handsome class of foliage plants

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Questions & Comments

will it eat my husband? f&w lol

Jul 23rd, 2014 at 10:53:05 PM PDT by

If you can figure that one out please please please let me know....it does eat some pests...just not all of em! =)
Thanks for watching! Fanned back!

Jul 23rd, 2014 at 10:56:58 PM PDT by

Known to eat Wasps, ants, and mosquitos....and any other pesky bugs that dare enter!! Sorry forgot to answer that one!!

Jul 27th, 2014 at 8:51:51 PM PDT by

You two Carol and Destiny just had me cracking up laughing. I wonder if it will get the mosquitos

Jul 27th, 2014 at 7:26:17 PM PDT by

I stuck my finger in one to see if it would take it off, and although I was willing to take one for the team, I got my finger back in tact. We will have to cut them up in itty bitty pieces to get this job done...LOL =)

Jul 27th, 2014 at 8:50:21 PM PDT by

What is the zone for this?

Jul 29th, 2014 at 10:15:23 PM PDT by

5a to 9
Thanks for looking!
Amanda Rae

Jul 30th, 2014 at 12:08:38 AM PDT by

I don't know zones, but I'm in Northern Virginia. Will it grow here?

Jul 30th, 2014 at 4:53:32 AM PDT by

Virginia zones range from 5a to 8a. All within the zone range of this plant. I am in 8b and it thrives here.

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Default.aspx#

Jul 30th, 2014 at 9:31:10 AM PDT by

If you raise it indoors do you have to feed it if you don't have insects?

Jul 30th, 2014 at 6:52:56 AM PDT by

Carnivorous plants often live in awful places. In other words, very nutrient poor environments where they're very boggy, so most of the nutrients have probably been leached away by water. As a result, the soil is so poor that many of those trace elements that keep plants growing normally, just aren’t available in appreciable amounts. So the plants need to look to the air to obtain that nutrition and they do it by catching insects because if they catch an insect, insects have got lots of iron, they've got lots of proteins, they've got lots of other micronutrients in them that the plants have adapted and evolved to make use of, and to supplement the poor source of things that are coming in through the soil.

Soooo...In answer to your question, no it doesn't have to as long as it can get the nutrients it requires from the soil!!
Thanks!!

Jul 30th, 2014 at 9:43:59 AM PDT by

20+ Incredibly Unique carnivorous Pitcher plant seeds + Bonus Bulb / Tuber - Eats Bugs in Garden!! is in the Home & Garden | Gardening | Gardening Seeds & Bulbs category