European Drosera

These are wonderful plants. I grow many localities of each species and some show a great deal of variation. I also grow outside D filiformis filiformis, various hybrids of hardy species and obviously D linearis.
I even have some living D arcturi out there that survived the - 20C this past winter!

Martin

Martin wrote:

These are wonderful plants. I grow many localities of each species and some show a great deal of variation. I also grow outside D filiformis filiformis, various hybrids of hardy species and obviously D linearis.
I even have some living D arcturi out there that survived the - 20C this past winter!

Martin

There's a lot of variation within the species indeed. Don't grow a lot of them though. I only have a few varieties.
I wonder if the australian D. arcturi would survive in Belgium too...I'll have to give it a try

I keep arcturi a bit drier in winter than most others. And inside the unheated greenhouse and outside in summer. It does get the low temperatures but not as wet as the others.
And its small! Only a very few carnivorous leafs on each plant and maybe max 2 cm. Easily gone planted out.

Martin

Martin wrote:

I keep arcturi a bit drier in winter than most others. And inside the unheated greenhouse and outside in summer. It does get the low temperatures but not as wet as the others.
And its small! Only a very few carnivorous leafs on each plant and maybe max 2 cm. Easily gone planted out.

Martin

Martin,

I'm more worried about the high temperatures in summer (yesterday and today we had temps going up to 35°C for example). Do you think it would survive that?

I have no idea. I live in Denmark. We dont have 35C...
But the outdoor Sarracenia collection could sure need some of those heat.
Martin

Martin wrote:

I have no idea. I live in Denmark. We dont have 35C...
But the outdoor Sarracenia collection could sure need some of those heat.
Martin

Yeah, the Sarracenia's love those temps, as do the Drosera's which are indigenous here in Belgium (like rotundifolia for example). I seem to remember from somewhere D. arcturi doesn't like high temperatures but I don't remember from where.

As long as the moisture is kept up to them, high temps don't bother them.  I grow various Drosera outside and we get to 40^oC without any problem.  If they dry out, on the other hand?  :o