Mini Drosera Garden

[David]

Just an update of my mini Drosera/Utric garden. Here's 2 picture I just took. The Utric has covered almost the entire media. Just need to be a little thicker and you won't see any sphagnum peat. Also because I shifted the mini garden in my 4-feet grow chamber where I place the rest of my Drosera, the D. adelae has turned all bronze maroon.

The next one I make, I'll follow more of what Khoas did with more exposed rocks and a terrain that has more steep angles and less leveled.

[alcran]

Thats impressive, what kind of utric is that?

[Khoas]

Your mini - bog looking good. The Utric almost look like a lawn.

[kentosaurs]

WOW the urtic is going nuts with your care...(and nuts as in a good way) WOW.......Soooo nice....The paradoxa quite big....Its just nice...What do you feed your urtics?

Ken

[plantlover]

Wow!!! That utric has spreaded so much!!

[David]

Thanks for all your coments.

Hi alcran,
I have U. graminflolia, U. tricolor and U. involvens in the mini bog. You can't see tricolor as it is behind the D. adelae. Not doing very well as I think they need cooler conditions to thrive. The involvens is just infront of the D. spatulata. It's starting to mix with the graminflolia. You can see 3 flower stalks growing up from the involvens and climbing on each other.

Ken,
I do not feed the utric. Don't know how to feed them.

[kentosaurs]

Hi David

I see.....Anyways have you ever grown U gibba???????? Can it be grown in a peat pot? And waterlogged in water? Anyways does about 5 cm water do good for gibbas? Do they need peat in they water containers?

Ken

[David]

Yes, I have grown U. gibba before, but just like my U. aurea and Aldrovanda, they will thrive for a couple for months and start to decline... Not sure why. Perhaps it's the water chemistry.

So, I'm not the right person to ask about their cultivation. Perhaps it's my growng conditions indoors... to hot I think. But other members I know had great success with gibba. They are just placed in any container/pot/pond/etc in the garden under sun and rain, and they thrive for them.

[TS]

I didn't grow U gibba, but they thrive like weed in my aquarium, I have to clear them out every time I get the water changed.
I saw people grow them in a shallow tray in the garden. Not too sure there is peat in the tray as the U gibba grow so thick at the surface and produced a lot of flowers. What I observed from the wild, the U gibba will flower when they grow thick and stagnant in the pond.
I placed my U. aurea and aldrovanda in the water lily and herbs pot in my garden, they thrive in there. The water is quite cooling as the pot was under some shade. The U aurea produced flowers quite frequently.

[David]

Jut did a new mini Garden in the last few days.

D. capensis "giant"
D. spatulata
U. graminfolia
P. lusitaica
P. primuliflora