Bought at the gardening club, you can see from the gnashers that he is a Venus fly trap plant. We had a talk from the grower of these plants, and he had some beauties, but at £20 a throw for the large ones I went for a smaller one to see if I could keep it over winter. They live in wet, boggy and swampy land, you give them rainwater and they just love sitting in water in a freeze as well. So this one will live in the bathroom and hunt flies in there.
Sticky nectar draws the fly to its fate, those evil spikes close round the struggling body (it must struggle), tightening all the time, till all the juices are extracted. Sounds a bit of a horror story doesn't it?
But there was some beautiful carnivours plants, we have them in this country as well, Trump talks of clearing the 'swamp' land, well whether he means real swamps or mythical city swamps don't let him.
Wackswickedplants.
I could sure use one of those lovely plants in the summertime.
ReplyDeleteNot sure they could eat all the flies around.
DeleteWhere I grew up there was an abandoned Brickworks at the back of us - some marshy land (including "Flamingo Marsh" where you could jump on one spot and see an area 10 feet away suddenly react!!) and lots of Sundews grew there. As you know these are the British wild carniverous plant - we used to "tease" them with a grass stalk into thinking it was a meal . . . Enjoy your lovely plant.
ReplyDeleteWell you must not feed them with chocolate or any type of food that is not an insect, in fact Jennie they 'die' if you tease them too much ;)
DeleteIf Charlie starts a Fan Club I am its first member.
ReplyDelete(toothbrush at the ready)
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit these plants do have a personality...
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