{"id":14162,"date":"2012-09-12T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14162"},"modified":"2012-09-12T05:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:35:36","slug":"sarracenia-trumpet-and-pitcher-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/sarracenia-trumpet-and-pitcher-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarracenia Trumpet and Pitcher Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to try growing plants that eat insects rather than suffer from the exact opposite? If so then the North American family of Sarracenia Trumpet and Pitcher plants may be just what you need.<br \/>\nThe insect trap is a vertical tube with a &#8216;hood&#8217; over the entrance with a lip that secretes insect attracting nectar and scents.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sarracenia exornata by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4225151897\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4064\/4225151897_9e19352b2b.jpg\" alt=\"Sarracenia exornata\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Selection of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants<\/h3>\n<p>Yellow Trumpet -Sarracenia flava<br \/>\nHooded Pitcher Plant &#8211; Sarracenia minor<br \/>\nSweet Trumpet &#8211; Sarracenia rubra<br \/>\nPurple Pitcher Plant &#8211; Sarracenia purpurea<br \/>\nPale Trumpet &#8211; Sarracenia alata<br \/>\nSarracenia exornata one of many hybrids<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sarracenia alata x flava red, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4225157733\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4032\/4225157733_217ce3815a.jpg\" alt=\"Pitcher plant\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Growing Tips for Trumpet and Pitcher Plants<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sarracenia<\/strong> like to be much wetter than Venus fly traps. You can&#8217;t really over water pitcher plants.<br \/>\nThe favoured growing system is in shallow water filled &#8216;trays&#8217; see a decorative version below.<br \/>\nRain water or deionized water is a better idea than tap water Depending what your tap water is like it could kill them off slowly.<br \/>\nPitchers and Trumpets like to be stood in a couple of inches of water and this can help insects breed.<br \/>\nSubstitute artificial light for sunlight that they would get in natural conditions. A minimum of 7 hours per day bright light is recommended by experts.<br \/>\nSarracenia do not self pollinate so hand pollination is necessary when insects may get digested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the enthusiast<\/strong> the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCarnivorous Plant Society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c2\u00a0 has a wealth of help and information on\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecps.org.uk\/\">this link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-carnivorous-and-insectivorous-plants\/\">Growing Carnivorous and Insectivorous Plants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pitcher.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pitcher\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pitcher.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Pitcher-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to try growing plants that eat insects rather than suffer from the exact opposite? If so then the North American family of Sarracenia Trumpet and Pitcher plants may be just what you need.<br \/>\nThe insect trap is a vertical tube with a &#8216;hood&#8217; over the entrance with a lip that secretes insect attracting nectar and scents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}