Bog Garden Tour | Sarracenia, Venus Flytraps, and More Carnivorous Plants!

hey everyone welcome back to the red leaf exotics channel i'm dom and today we're going to be outside the greenhouse touring the ba gardens all of the sarcinia fly traps in drosseira are looking really awesome this time of year they've really shot up in the past few weeks so it's a little rainy overcast but it should be nice weather for showing you guys the details on these beautiful plants here we go so i'll just take you guys around some of the raised beds that i did uh just the past two years outside and show you what's going on in them uh we've only had sarcina out here maybe for two seasons now which isn't that long not even a full three years and they have grown so fast even from little tiny seedlings and a few of the plants right here in front of me are from little seedlings now you're not going to hear me do rocco fuscus spectabilis tres marienses out here like i do with the nepenthes i don't know all the hybrid names as well especially since um a lot of these are newer creations but i know some sarcina stuff so i'll go through and just share my experience uh with these plants and how i've grown them here outside in tennessee in zone seven so you could see how healthy and beautiful they're all looking this time of year i have them in this raised bed and it's filled with peat and sand there's more peat than sand i do it by eye and feeling so once it feels you know muddy but a little gritty some drainage in there i'll uh fill this up and then i'll plant the sarcinia right in it i keep this constantly moist to wet and they thrive i never allow these beds to dry out sarcina do not want to dry out so that is what they need that nice moisture in the roots to keep them tall and beautiful like this if they get dry the pitchers can die and the plants not really going to be happy this one right here i do know it is a newer hybrid prometheus cross adrian slack and this one i got from a friend trexler carson and it's looking so cool it's a very vigorous plant i got this one as a small seedling with a bunch of others and this one matured before any of them and i really like this dark streaking in the throat almost like a flava and it has beautiful like orange coloration around the lip it is really really nice and if you guys come right down here this is one thing i love about the beauty of hybridization this is the same hybrid but seed grown so you get the variety and look how cute these are with their pink lips you can really see that adrian slack lending the nice white creamy color to the lid and probably that nice bright pink lip that's one thing i love about hybridization is just seeing the different traits come through and looking at this plant i can both see both of those parents i won't dig for the name tag on this one but look at how beautiful these are a lot of things that are in these beds are just some more eyes different called moriah cultivars which is a cross between the flavas and the leucophilas which is a beautiful combination when you're hybridizing but i love that one there are some over here that are showing some really big pictures for just being a year old from the seedlings they're really starting to look nice i love how big they are i love the red and this one is from jerry addington a very well known sarcinia grower and let me see if i could find the tag oh it's ace addington cross black widow um and this is what you get from that love how big the lid is on this one and just for their second year um i'd expect next year for them to do their absolute best uh sarcinia are herbaceous perennials which mean they die back every year and then they come back and if you live in zones you know five to maybe eight or nine you can definitely grow these outside really easy um when i lived in hawaii just a little bit up the mountain i had a friend who grew sarcina leucophila all year round with no dormancy and they did really well however i always suggest sarcenia to be in colder temperate climates where they could get that winter dormancy and that usually produces the most robust plants i've noticed um when sarcinia don't get that dormancy or not a long enough or hard enough dormancy they kind of become spindly and a little weak the biggest best plants i've seen get that dormancy and they come back so nice and strong there's also some other native bog plants that i have planted in here one of them is called bog beauty it gets a beautiful pink flower i'm unsure the scientific name but bog beauty has become a bog hog it has taken over everything um but i am going to manage it i'll keep it weeded away from the very you know crowns of the sarcinia but i do think it will help the pitchers stay more stout if we get strong winds it'll fill in between and that's how a lot of sarcenia grow in the wild they have a lot of grasses and native plants around them that really help them you know stay upright instead of blowing over there are you could see there's a fly there wiggling his little hands he's like yes time to get some food little does he know he's going to be the food coming down in here we have some fly traps just growing up these ones are pretty big this one here is a king henry and they're getting so big already just kind of growing down in here they even seed and come up from the seed which is really cool so for just two years i'm really excited to see how everything has filled in and it has adapted this bed i just did probably one of the last ones i've done but you could see their soros here i made some divisions over the winter so we just got these two big pictures right now but hybrids like this this is another moriai cultivar hybrids like this with the luca feel in them usually produce their best pitchers later in the season as to where the flavas come up a little earlier here's prometheus one that i is one of the parents in those hybrids i showed you back there and while we are looking at this flower on prometheus i'll talk to you guys a little bit about pollination because you're going to see some pollen sacks around the garden with seed pods in them so this is a sarcina flower this one is way past its prime so they usually have petals hanging out of here and i'll see if there's any left but i'm pretty sure we're done for the season but if you come under the flower this is where all the pollen will be it's not there now but um bees will come into the flower and when they go in the pollen will go on there from another plant and then when they're in there they'll get the pollen then they have to come out another way there's only one way back out so they don't come back past the stigma and self-pollinate the plant really interesting almost like an orchid how a lot of their flowers are designed a special way for pollinators there are pollen sacs on some of the plants that i hybridized so i usually will cover them after pollinating them to make sure no ants or bugs get in there and mess up the hard work that i did you know i won't collect these till later in the season and to plant seeds and find out they're not what you did can be frustrating because it does take a long time this is the flava georgia giant this is one of my top favorites garcinia in the collection i got this one from a conrad at the pent beach jungle a really close friend love conrad in this plant funny story when he came to visit us when we first moved here he had a truck full of sarcinia and he pulled one of these out of the back with one pitcher on it probably this size and it was the biggest one i've ever seen in my life so i told him like conrad i need that plant and we found a way to get it in the collection and now it always you know this one reminds me of conrad and that's the beauty of plants having you know different selections in the garden that remind you of people we have adrian slack here this looks so good did a lot of breeding with this one it's a very popular moriyai cultivar gets that nice red lip a beautiful creamy top this is another one later in the season it will be covered in pictures with all these nice creamy kind of lids it really stands out amongst the red pitchers you can see this one here coming is going to be bigger i love this white one over here this is just its second year again from a little seedling what is this it's adrian slack cross leucophila it's leucophila very good cross age rain slack this is another one that's from no this one is not from carson this is from atlanta carnivorous gardens you can check them out on instagram and really love the white on this plant it's very stunning it definitely turned out to be something i would keep and possibly name as a cultivar later but i am going to get it bigger and more clumpy before that can happen it's just its second year and i really want to see what it's capable of i have some different containers and barrels that i got at lowe's that i also do the same raised bed idea in um and the plants just love this on the hottest days in summer i will have to come here and give them some water but they do awesome this one here is great this is a sarcega paparia brunswick beauty nice deep red pictures you could see the leucophilas coming in i have a typical form and then an all white or all green form and these look so little right now but later in the year they will get some pretty nice big pictures which is always really nice like i said to have that later season flush of pitchers on the plants here is another raised bed um a lot of really cool stuff in here and my plan is to take out the non-spectacular plants once i grow a lot of things out i'm really trying to stick with popular or you know really good cultivars that have good color good traits for breeding i don't want to have a ton of sarcia just everywhere with all the traits in the books um but speaking of good traits really well known this one here is legacy another one of those mauryai hybrids and these are just so beautiful a lot of white a smaller lid and it does get a beautiful pink you know design around the edge of it it is really striking i have to say when i was getting heavier into sarcinia you know i look at a lot of the hybrids and i'm like they all look the same and people always say that about nepenthes um but there are select cultivars of sarcina that are just amazing looking here's one down here this one is called potty mouth and it gets these huge pitchers kind of distorted mouths and lids and then they'll turn a deep red or orange color as the season goes on but really big and just another one that stands out i love when they have a really big lid like this one does if you guys want to see there's actually some bugs squirming down in here we got like a ladybug and a i don't even know if that's really not a ladybug but it looks like one some moths and during mid-summer some of these pitchers are filled right to the brim with bugs there are also some native orchids in these beds they're blooming this is beautiful this is the kalapagon orchid and these love growing in the same conditions as sarcenias and the fly traps nice and moist boggy soil and every year they come up with these beautiful pink flowers orchids are always a must-have in the garden let's see we have another famous cultivar back here this is reptilian rose nice big spring pitchers there's one over here too it's smaller but it has more pitchers but really nice big lids on these there is a flava caprea here and this one i love so much simply for the cultivar name carmelita that's my mom's name so another one i got from conrad and i'm like i need that plant because it's named after my mom and i mean when do you really hear the name carmelita so that's a really special plant and one i know i'll always have um in the gardens here here's a hot one up front this is just its second season ellie wang from mike wang look at the beautiful dark pictures on this and that bright white lid heavily covered in almost black veins and some pink how nice is that usually by fall my sarcinia drive ends and then when spring comes and i start seeing all my friends posting different pictures of them and stuff i start to feel the rush again um especially once they start coming up like this they're just ridiculous looking here's another one that was from a seedling and this one is berry pastry crossed with rubric corbora purple lips cross purple lips and this is one i will keep from the seedlings look at the intense lids on this something like that to me is like cultivar status very dramatic if you look at these two beds here i'd say out of all these plants minus the ellie wing this lid really calls your attention and while we're here looking at some pine needles i put these on for a little bit of winter protection just around the crowns and this also helps keep weeds down and it insulates the plants from the hot heat once it starts getting warmer so it does a lot of good stuff for them here's another newer barrel playing at this one in the fall there's some fly traps coming up these are huge this one is low giant you can see how big they are not gonna stick my finger in there because i'm gonna let it save its energy for an actual bug or something that it can digest to go into there got some flava ornata improved black veins there's a beautiful one down the end of the bog i'll show you guys this one's smaller but really striking pictures on that [Music] we're going to move up to this next raised bed kind of thing i made i just made this out of old barn wood that we had on the property um put a pond liner in it this one has pearlite and peat but if i could do it again i wouldn't have put the pearlite because now it's all on the top but as sphagnum and stuff grows this will fill in nice um you could see there's a lot of different stuff in here there are some drastera uh film formus right here you could see they have their really long tentacles covered in the honeydew draw seraphiliformis are really hardy here for us they come up probably around early april and then they shoot all these long leaves up and they catch these are covered in bugs and they're going to be blooming soon too some pine tree weeds in here is um a sarcenia uh pepperea and i crossed this with some cool things like that ellie wang i showed you a lot of fly traps in here that have just uh broken dormancy i actually did a lot of dividing early in the year and a lot of these i i will separate them when they're dormant and then they come up so they can adjust and get their new root system if you look really close i'll move this tag you could see all the seedlings coming up from the dressera filiformis look at all them everywhere just covering the ground here's another one of the kalapagon tuberosus orchids or grass pink these are in a lot of the beds and this year they are nicer than ever they have this little bulb you could see right here this one's above ground and then they shoot these leaves out of it and in the winter they do go dormant and disappear down on this end there is another flava ornata improved black veins plant and look at how beautiful the veins are on this flava is definitely oh it's hard but i would say one of my more favorite species i was going to say favorite but i don't know the purp rays and the luca filas are pretty hard to beat but all three of those are just great love this one here is a red monster coming up a really nice fly trap with beautiful red coloration some nice size traps on them too and just in a few weeks or months these will be loaded with traps we still are getting some cool weather intermittently here in tennessee so once that stabilizes we'll have a lot more nicer traps there's another bed down here this probably be one of our last beds that i'll show you guys this is a really cool hybrid this is leo wilkerson adrian slack you can see that adrian slacky kind of look to it nice bright white lid and red coloration as the years go on and these get bigger and i start dividing them i'll probably uh start a big flood table put all the divisions there kind of have a temperate greenhouse in the works so that the wind and early spring frost don't damage anything once they come up so that will be really cool to have and definitely do a video on that when it happens but for now these will stay outside and like i said earlier in the video they're herbaceous perennials and the key and the trick to them is sleep creep leap perennials always kind of hang around the first year the next year they look really good but it's that third year that they really explode and the same for the sarcenia um i'll i will do some more updates and stuff as the season goes on in these change of course but i did want to get you guys a video just sharing some of the really cool outdoor carnivores if you are curious and you do want to grow these i highly suggest it there are so many different kinds of fly traps sarsini and drossera that can grow outdoors in zones roughly from five to eight or nine so don't be afraid if you see these in a store i never suggest growing them indoors um sarcenia are definitely a beautiful plant to grow outside you know it's kind of like are you gonna grow a blue spruce in your windowsill sarcina are the same thing they want to be outside they want to get cold they want to get these elements and that is what keeps them super happy if you're gonna try one indoors i would suggest vinosa which is a southern form of purpurea that likes it a little warmer so i have friends that have them inside and had them inside for a couple years with no problems but overall if you have no clue what you're doing you want to grow sarcina build a bog with peat and sand make sure it's nice and wet um like i said there's pond liner in here it holds all the moisture in there and i never ever never ever let these dry out they have to stay moist to wet at all times and you will be rewarded with all of these pictures so if you guys have any more specific questions i'll definitely answer those really easy to take care of the bog garden plants and they are so rewarding i'm dom here at red leaf exotics i hope you enjoyed the outdoor bog gardens here and i can't wait to update you guys later in the season everybody have a beautiful day and i'll see you on our next video thank you [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 24min 0sec (1440 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 03 2021