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Old 10-19-2021, 10:57 AM
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Here we are in fall... what tremendous growth from those teeny tiny little plugs I received this spring. Another month, and I'll be tucking them into the garage for their winter nap.





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Nice job, and a very nice setting for your pitcher plants (near the pond). Green & blue thumbs are some of the best.
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Looking awesome!!!
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update please!


here is my pitcher bog...it needs to be weeded



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I would love to give an update DC. However, SOME of us don't live in a tropical paradise.

My Sarracenia are currently residing in an unheated, barely above freezing insulated garage along with some fig trees. And husband has to schlep RO water out to the Sarracenia in a five gallon bucket from the second floor of the house, because there's about an inch of ice on top of the rain barrels. He loves me/tolerates me very well.

I'd post a picture, but it would be ugly. Plus OB doesn't allow me to post pictures nowadays.
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ok, i admit, i forgot it was still real winter....that's my bad

i am so sorry that you made Mr witchin do all that schlepping....just remind him they used to all be in the basement!!!!


looking forward to the eventual update...why cant you post pics???
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I would love to give an update DC. However, SOME of us don't live in a tropical paradise.

My Sarracenia are currently residing in an unheated, barely above freezing insulated garage along with some fig trees. And husband has to schlep RO water out to the Sarracenia in a five gallon bucket from the second floor of the house, because there's about an inch of ice on top of the rain barrels. He loves me/tolerates me very well.

I'd post a picture, but it would be ugly. Plus OB doesn't allow me to post pictures nowadays.
You should tell your husband that while it would be more work all at once, he should think about all of the bucket carrying over the years that he wouldn't need to do if he dug you a bog.
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First Sarracenia flower of the season. This a S. rosea, which is the one species of Sarracenia I'm not 100% confident will survive a cold winter in the ground here, so I kept this plant potted and brought it in for the winter. As soon as it's divisible a piece will go out in the bog and I'll winter a piece indoors just in case:
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ok, i admit, i forgot it was still real winter....that's my bad

i am so sorry that you made Mr witchin do all that schlepping....just remind him they used to all be in the basement!!!!


looking forward to the eventual update...why cant you post pics???
DC, read this thread...Problem Logging In To Orchidboard Nothing has changed for me since then.

I do occasionally remind him that we used to schlep stuff up and down stairs twice a year. And that it helps keep his muscles strong for all the bales of hay he has to lift for the horses. It usually provokes immediate compliance.

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You should tell your husband that while it would be more work all at once, he should think about all of the bucket carrying over the years that he wouldn't need to do if he dug you a bog.
Subrosa, I used to own a water garden business that created bogs, remember? He would likely be fine with digging one, as long as I was digging right along with him. About seven years ago, a friend who builds ponds and I reshaped my water garden and falls section. We filled in a second stream that led down from the top of falls to increase water flow to make the falls higher but use the same high head flow pump.

Fast forward... I wanted to build a bog garden. Right where three years earlier there was already a part of pond could easily have become a bog. But was now filled in and had a few tons of rock and four-man boulders on top of it. Husband looked at me, reminded me of the three years earlier project, and reminded me I'd said "I'm sure not moving these rocks twice." I lowered my tail, rolled over to expose my belly, then slunk off to lay under the porch.
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DC, read this thread...Problem Logging In To Orchidboard Nothing has changed for me since then.

I do occasionally remind him that we used to schlep stuff up and down stairs twice a year. And that it helps keep his muscles strong for all the bales of hay he has to lift for the horses. It usually provokes immediate compliance.

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Subrosa, I used to own a water garden business that created bogs, remember? He would likely be fine with digging one, as long as I was digging right along with him. About seven years ago, a friend who builds ponds and I reshaped my water garden and falls section. We filled in a second stream that led down from the top of falls to increase water flow to make the falls higher but use the same high head flow pump.

Fast forward... I wanted to build a bog garden. Right where three years earlier there was already a part of pond could easily have become a bog. But was now filled in and had a few tons of rock and four-man boulders on top of it. Husband looked at me, reminded me of the three years earlier project, and reminded me I'd said "I'm sure not moving these rocks twice." I lowered my tail, rolled over to expose my belly, then slunk off to lay under the porch.
Yup, looks like checkmate to me!
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