Suppliers of carnivorous plants with appetite!
Welcome to the world of hungry plants! Carnivorous plants
lure and trap insects, before slowly digesting them to satisfy their
hunger. This helps them grow in sphagnum peat bogs were there is little
plant nutrients. They have wonderful colours to attract their food and
bizarrely adapted leaves to catch and eat it.
Carnivorous plants are easy to grow once you know where
and why they grow. The following web pages will guide you through this.
These plants can be obtained from Hungry Plants nursery, growers of
Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula), Pitcher plants (Sarracenia), Cobra
lilies (Darlingtonia californica), Sundews (Drosera) Butterworts
(Pinguicula) and Bladderworts (Ultricularia).
The plant collection, consisting of over 2500 plants in
over 600
varieties, is currently housed in a large greenhouse, and a polytunnel.
In addition hardy and native carnivorous plants are grown in an outdoor
bog, and tropical varieties such as Nepenthes and Heliamphora, are
grown
and propagated in terraria.
We will have our next open days in July when the sarracenia pitchers are looking their best.
see Open Day
Personal visits to view the collection are very welcome, but please contact us beforehand to make an appointment.
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