Carnivorous Plants

[Lisa Marie Claire]

Does anyone successfully grow carnivourous plants outdoors in a boggy area up here?
I would love to grow them but im not sure if i would be able to .........................

[Anthony Darby]

Where's here? Sarracenia purpurea has been naturalised on Rannoch Moor in north Perthshire. Native species will survive quite happily in boggy situations.

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Lisa,
I think you could certainly try some of the boggy bug eaters in Aberdeen.....Sarracenias etc. Droseras that are not native are a bit tender, I think. It might be a question of giving them a bit of winter overhead protection... there must be someone out there who has tried this in NE Scotland....

By the way, must phone you soon, got some opal  stones for earrings need setting etc!
Maggi

[Lisa Marie Claire]

Hi sorry here is Mannofield Aberdeen!
Maggi i have just emailed Ian!
I am a lady of Leisure at the moment so anytime! ish! i can come to you or you can come to me and see my developing mess of a garden!
I am having a soakaway in my garden coming from the garage roof rainwater so i thought this would be ideal for carnivorous plants?

I went to the Planning department today and they say i can have a living roof ! how exciting! i have seen a specialist who sells sedum in rolls but im sure i saw a grand designs where they used other plants randomly!do you or does any one else know about this?
Glad to hear your getting better Maggi x

[Lisa Marie Claire]

I thought these were indoor and i have one which is now outside (Sarracenia purpurea) i got it in Amsterdam ! i think it will do better outside!You live and leaRN 
Are there other succesfull grown types in Aberdeen?

[johnralphcarpenter]

Drosera rotundifolia at Hothfield National Nature Reserve in Kent.

[Maggi Young]

Ian is establishing Pinguiculas on a mossy rock in the middle of our pond.  The first is starting to flower but hard to get a photo.

[brianw]

I have got wet feet photographing sundews in the Cairngorms in the past.

[fredg]

All the native Drosera and Pinguicula would be comfortable. Then you could have the Sarracenia, particularly the ones forming winter phyllodia. If you're prepared to mulch over winter. S.minor and S. psittacina are worth a try but may be a little suspect otherwise. Darlingtonia is another that will take very low temperatures and they like wet feet. The rest of the European Pinguicula are also worth a try.
There's plenty to go at and the Sarracenia are interesting on a summer's evening when they start singing or is that humming? 

[Anthony Darby]

Sarracenia purpurea has been introduced to, and thrives on, Rannoch Moor, and other places.

[fredg]

Sarracenia purpurea has been introduced to, and thrives on, Rannoch Moor, and other places.

And hopefully will be removed.

[Hoy]

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I went to the Planning department today and they say i can have a living roof ! how exciting! i have seen a specialist who sells sedum in rolls but im sure i saw a grand designs where they used other plants randomly!do you or does any one else know about this?
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Hi Claire,  you can grow anything on your roof. It is just to use your creativity!

Here's my shed roof (2011). I have several kinds of plants there (more now than in the picture from 2011) and especially saxes do very good.

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a Rannoch plant 1 metre across http://www.ipernity.com/doc/afwrite/18094863 and an article about invasion of alien plants, including the Rannoch Moor pitchers http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/invasion-of-the-alien-plants-1.188093 .

[YT]

Pinguicula ‘Hanka’ (zecheri x rotundiflora)

We have very warm autumn this year and it's in the third blooming season now.

[ian mcdonald]

The people who have introduced foreign plants to Rannoch Moor also should be planted there.