>> - Sarracenia Purpura : do I have to fill its pitchers with water ?
>> Because at the moment there is no liquid in them.
If you want the plant to trap buts then you should keep them
with some water in them. Mine naturally end up with water
since I water them fairly haphazardly from above. It certainly
can't hurt the plant.
>>
>> - Sarracenia psittacina : do I have to leave the plant under water
>> during all winter ?
>>
>>My last question sounds weird, but I read this in a "supposed to be" =
good
>>book, but I am a bit suspicious about this information.
You should be suspicious. The reason this bit of
information exists is because some reports of the plants
in the wild show it being submerged by winter flooding.
I would offer however that many things which plants seem
to survive in nature will kill them in cultivation. I
think the best explanation is contained in an old joke:
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"Each year dozens of old men in the Eastern US, Canada,
and Russia, dig holes in the ice and jump into the
freezing water wearing nothing more than bathing suits.
These bathers point to their robust health at such an
advanced age as proof that this process they submit
themselves too is healthy. The truth of it is that
it's already killed all the old men too weak to take it."
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:-)
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Robert