Re: Keeping Cp over the winter

Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 22 Dec 1996 13:44:53 +0100

On 20 Dec 96 at 1:40, Andrew Harbottle wrote:

> I am fairly new to the cultivation of cp, the plant I currently keep
> include, venus fly trap, s.flava, and a few types of sundew, including a
> staghorn sundew.
>
> Anyway this is the first winter I have kept these plants and would like
> some tips as to the best conditions for keeping cp over the winter, in a
> fairly cold north east of England.

I'm in south-east England. All the above would be completely happy in
what is usually described as a 'cool' greenhouse (min. 7C), and the
Sarracenia wouldn't mind a bit less - for lack of space, some of my
Sarrs regularly spend Winter outside (but under a shelter) where I
guess it would get down to -5C or less. As mentioned in another post,
'staghorn' sundew is almost certainly Drosera binata, and in my
experience always loses its leaves in Winter.

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Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk)