About This Page
My fascination with meat eating plants has been near life-long; starting with a book report I did in second grade. The cover, an extremely zoomed in photograph of a venus flytrap, both horrified me and drew me in. I can’t say that’s when I started caring for them however… back then I was still feeding my VFTs things like bologna.
I started actually understanding plant care after purchasing Sir Plantsalot (Nepenthes x “ventrata”) in 2015 and having to learn how to keep her alive.
Still! That is a decade of experience and research that I cannot properly turn into a bibliography for readers to access.
Instead, to the right I have showcased the Sites I personally look to for my carnivore care questions. I hope they help you as much as they help me.
Affiliates:
None Yet! Also worth noting, none of the people on this page know me (yet)! No sponsorship or deals, just me recommending good sources.
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Thank you for visiting my page. It is currently under construction, but soon it will be a space to not only teach you about my strange and vicious plant children... but to also help you obtain one of my little monsters yourself.
While you wait please send any questions to c.lawson.creatures@gmail.com
California Carnivores is a specialty greenhouse specializing, naturally, in carnivorous plants. They have their YouTube and Instagram accounts linked on their page, I highly recommend checking those out too, their videos are fantastic. Linked here is their own care page, it covers far more species than mine does at the moment.
Honorable mention to The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D'Amato. Peter is the founder of California Carnivores, and his book is one of the best starting places for new carnivore growers- or at the very least, it was one of my starting places.
The Mid Atlantic Carnivorous Plant Society is an educational community grown around these wonderful plants. I am a member and a plant show hopeful. I recommend their FaceBook page, the members are extremely helpful and easy to reach on FB's accessible platform.
Barry Rice's Sarracinea.com is being linked here because of his experiments with Venus Flytraps and his own human flesh. While typing this blurb up specifically though... I realized he might be the author of the book I mentioned on the left. YOU!!! I was going to say his site was an inspiration of mine in creating my own plant care hub... but it turns out he might be THE inspiration for my hungry plant fixation in the first place. Neat! Thanks man!
Uh. Anyways. That experiment stuck in my morbid brain, so that's what I have linked. It's a great read if you want to get a gross friend into botany. The site itself is huge and loaded with good info.
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