Plants of Prey

I have seen topics on Birds of Prey, Lizards and other backyard visitors. I therefore thought that I might share the reason that my backyard has little in the way of insects and other creatures. My plants eat them. No bug spray needed. Over the summer months the plants will capture and eat enough insects to keep themselves happy.

Mosquitos, flies, lizards and small field mice are all fair game.

 



 

Nice one mate. Beware the Trifids. By the way, will they eat Mother-in-Laws.

That depends on how tender the mother-in-law is. :)

Nice pitchers...

[user=644]Campaman[/user] wrote:

Nice pitchers…

 
Very good Andy!

Andrew, are Nepenthes native to your part of the world?

Doug

Nepenthes come in different types. Natively they grow from Queensland upwards through to Borneo (big concentration) although they are also native in numbers as far as South China and across to India. Think of areas that are hot, humid and lowland (warm days and cool moist nights). A number of species also like the high country (cool days and freezing nights).

In my experience anywhere that orchids seem to like so do they.

The other interesting thing is that they do not like "wet feet". Where other types of plants such as Sarracenias (Nth American pitcher plants) and Dionea (Venus fly trap) like to be consistently damp (sit in water tray) the Nepenthes like humidity and moisture but sitting in a tray of water seems to impact their growth.

Happy to post more information and photos (including on other types) if members are interested.

For those in Sydney there is a presentation, competition and display at the Sydney Royal (the largest horticultural and agriculture show in the state) on the 5th April.