North American Pitcher Plant Gallery

Sarracenia love lots of sunlight, they can take it without any shade cloth provided they are standing in a tray of 1-2cm of rain water. We recommend to exchange the water every 5 days to prevent moskitos from breeding. The soil can be more soggy than for Nepenthes, coco peat does a good job, but it needs to be replaced annually. Also make sure to not plant Sarracenia too deep into the soil, the rhizome should be only up to half in the soil, while still anchoring the plant properly. Sarracenia do have a dormancy period, which is in temperate countries during winter. We are recommending to put them for three months a year into the refrigerator. For this procedure all leafs are to be removed and the rhizomes to be cleaned and treated with fungicide.
Alternatively you can try a dry dormancy during the dry season, where the plants get only a minimum amount of water thus resting, too.
Still, we believe a cool dormancy is superior, also if you are interested to see the spectacular flowers.
While Nepenthes has a certain preference for ants, Sarracenia really goes for the flying stuff as in house flies and wasps.

S. leucophylla

OUT OF STOCK

Colorwise the most spectacular Sarracenia of all, producing pure white, contrasting with red and green pitchers. The size is also astounding and can reach 1 meter ideally. The good news is, it likes the climate in the Philippines and grows well. Our sales plants are right now 15 cm tall.

S. rubra x minor (Okefenokee giant)

OUT OF STOCK

In this hybrid S. minor dominates strongly, which is nice, because it is a very spectacular species, known for it's hooded lid. The back of lid is illuminated by large window-like white areas, fooling the insect to have an easy escape.

S. x catesbaei x rubra

OUT OF STOCK

Our plants are still small, but they start to look really spectacular. Their diameter is relatively big, they start green with heavy deep red veins. Later the whole pitcher can turn into a dark red. The hybrid S. x catesbaei is S. flava crossed with S. purpurea.

S. 'rubra'

OUT OF STOCK

This plant originates from some nursery in Manila, who got it on a wholesale import. These kinds of plants are sometimes dubious, if their given name is really correct, so take the name with caution, especially as our mother plant is already near 50cm.

It is an all green plant, which is very prolific and produces lots of strong pitchers with a mild indumentum and detailed red veins. It is a good fly catcher as you can always hear struggling insects when you are near the plant.

S. 'Judith Hindle'

AVAILABLE FOR SALE

This Hybrid is the cross of Sarracenia (leucophylla x flava "rugelli") x S. purpurea "chipola". While the plant still looks a lot like S. leucophylla it has a more impressive lid and dark purple colors once aged, plus most importantly it produces loads of pitchers. This is a vigorous beginners plant.

Wholesale inquiries welcome.

Price: Php 250 usually a bit taller than 10 cm

S. 'Scarlet Belle'

AVAILABLE FOR SALE

This Hybrid is the cross of Sarracenia leucophylla and S. psittacina. The parents of these plants have been selected out of large amount of plants to get the utmost in beauty and vigorosity. While S. leucophylla is responsible for the beauty, S. psittacina can be accounted for the sheer amout of pitchers this plant is producing. In nature you find mostly only the reverse cross Sarracenia x wrigleyana (S. psittacina x leucophylla).

Wholesale inquiries welcome.

Price: Php 250 SIZE M, either a relatively big plant or a cluster of small plants

Price: Php 100 SIZE S Single plant NEW EXTRA LOW Price!

S. psittacina (Jackson County, Mississippi)

AVAILABLE MID 2012

A very unusual Sarracenia that puts it's pitchers flat on the soil surface. Also for trapping it can't rely on gravity like the others, but on inward pointed bristles. Aside from nectar glands, it also attracts as a light trap, with transparent windows suggesting easy exits, where there are none. This plant is also capable catching under water, so aside from the usual insect diet, tadpoles and mosquito larve can be found in the pitchers. The hook shaped pitchers give the plant it's name: Parrot plant.

Price: Php 350 SIZE S

S. purpurea

AVAILABLE FOR SALE

The classic Sarracenia species that is common to many parts of Northern America up to Canada. It is a temperate plant and might need special attention when grown in the tropics. In the worst case it (the rhizom only) needs to be placed in the frige for 3 months a year. Still it looks so very different from other Sarracenia that it is very well worth a try. For us it is doing wonderfully now and doesn't show any need for a dormancy.

Wholesale inquiries welcome.

Price: Php 250 SIZE S

S. hybrid A

Out of stock

We got a delivery with new Sarracenia hybrids. They don't have names and they will never have. At the same time they won't be for sale any time near... but hopefully one day in future.

S. hybrid B

Out of stock

We got a delivery with new Sarracenia hybrids. They don't have names and they will never have. At the same time they won't be for sale any time near... but hopefully one day in future.

S. hybrid C

Out of stock

We got a delivery with new Sarracenia hybrids. They don't have names and they will never have. At the same time they won't be for sale any time near... but hopefully one day in future.

S. hybrid D

Out of stock

We got a delivery with new Sarracenia hybrids. They don't have names and they will never have. At the same time they won't be for sale any time near... but hopefully one day in future.

S. rubra

Out of stock

This is probably the real thing, but it also arrived unlabeled.