Couple of questions and some garden pr0n

[threegoldfish]

The former owner of my house decided to kill her lawn, which I applaud because it meant I didn't have to do it! However, when she did it, she also dug up all the topsoil then laid plastic and wood chips over the clay. :( I've removed that and have been slowly trying to get plants to grown back there and build the organics back up. I've let wild/

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Hefner eat your heart out

[poem670]

Yay for carnivorous plant porn!

Re: Hefner eat your heart out

[threegoldfish]

Thanks! The macro on my camera was cooperating for once yesterday. :)

[angelchrome]

Fabulous photos! I have a wild strawberry invasion but I'm sticking with the wild ones simply because I've not got huge sunny spaces and since these are happy to grow in the shade I'm letting them do just that. I'd do better with cultivated strawberries in full sun.

[threegoldfish]

Cultivated! That's the word I was looking for. I thought most of them had to be full sun but I was hoping there might be one or two. Oh well. I'm going to leave the wild ones anyway.

[angelchrome]

I love mine with the little flowers and red fruits. It beats having to try and cultivate a lawn in that shade and I don't have to mow it.

[threegoldfish]

The carnivores? Sure! They're native plants. You'll find purple pitcher plants all the way up the east coast to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Actually, first place I ever saw a pitcher plant was in Nova Scotia. Most of these pitchers need a winter dormacy (as do the venus flytraps) so it's best to plant them outside. Now, I'm going to have to mulch the top of my mini-bog as well as move it to a more protected area since it's a container and it's currently on an exposed deck but yeah, they'll take down to 20°F for short periods without a problem. You can find out more here: http://cobraplant.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=10

[torijunki]

very cool :) nice selection.