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Gardening with Carnivores: Sarracenia Pitcher Plants in Cultivation and in the Wild

Author(s): Romanowski, N.

Year: 2002

Publisher: University Press of Florida

ISBN: 0813025095

Subject: Gardening, Natural History, Rare and Endangered

Comments: From Amazon.com: The North American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) are among the most spectacular carnivorous plants, and also the easiest to grow in temperate climates. Although Sarracenia have long been confused with unrelated tropical Nepenthes pitchers, gardeners are becoming aware that many of these hardy plants will thrive in the open, from parts of southern Canada to the cooler subtropics. Sarracenia thrive best in the open garden and usually show their richest colors in full sun. This book is the first complete guide to these ornamental plants, from natural history to hybridization, and from making a bog garden to using the pitchers as long-lasting cut ‘flowers.’ It brings together practical and academic information to give new insights into the biology and evolution of a dynamically changing group. All species and many hybrids are shown in their richest colors. In the wild, most stands of these species have disappeared, mostly through drainage of wetlands, but also through poaching and cutting for the floristry trade. To ease some of the many pressures on the wild populations, commercial growers—from collectors and florists to aquaculturists—are looking at raising many species and hybrids for cut pitchers. The final section describes how to produce these exotic-looking yet readily raised pitchers for sale.

Last Updated: 2007-01-01

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