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jobot37
anybody dig em? I'm trying to find a good nursery near Salem, Oregon too, so if anybody knows one!
NME_locus
QUOTE(jobot37 @ Mar 23 2006, 02:40 AM) [snapback]1116558[/snapback]

anybody dig em? I'm trying to find a good nursery near Salem, Oregon too, so if anybody knows one!


Why, you can more than likely find them around you. In texas, they grow in the wild.
Just a little ways away, in Big Thicket National Preserve:

There are 85 tree species, more than 60 shrubs, and nearly 1,000 other flowering plants, including 26 ferns and allies, 20 orchids and four of North America's five type of insect-eating plants.

I'm pretty sure in Oregon, you have a better chance than down here in Texas.


Wait...I have something...
Here's a 18 acre nursery in Oregon, of Carnivorous plants.

Oregon is famous for more than 300 miles of scenic coastline where visitors can enjoy stunning basalt rock outcroppings, sea lion caves, cliffs and dunes. Darlingtonia Wayside is not as well-known as the coast's rocky turnouts and vistas, but it is the only state park in Oregon devoted to the protection of one plant - the Darlingtonia californica, a type of pitcher plant that lives off both photosynthesis and the digestion of insects.

Also, Cobra lillies are native to Oregon too.

Source: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=305907


different
I had a venus fly trap a while back, but it died mysteriously I was gone a day and it had already consumed it's extra 2 servings of water and dried up.
novaceleste
QUOTE(NME_locus @ Mar 23 2006, 01:02 PM) [snapback]1117347[/snapback]

Why, you can more than likely find them around you. In texas, they grow in the wild.
Just a little ways away, in Big Thicket National Preserve:

There are 85 tree species, more than 60 shrubs, and nearly 1,000 other flowering plants, including 26 ferns and allies, 20 orchids and four of North America's five type of insect-eating plants.

I'm pretty sure in Oregon, you have a better chance than down here in Texas.
Wait...I have something...
Here's a 18 acre nursery in Oregon, of Carnivorous plants.

Oregon is famous for more than 300 miles of scenic coastline where visitors can enjoy stunning basalt rock outcroppings, sea lion caves, cliffs and dunes. Darlingtonia Wayside is not as well-known as the coast's rocky turnouts and vistas, but it is the only state park in Oregon devoted to the protection of one plant - the Darlingtonia californica, a type of pitcher plant that lives off both photosynthesis and the digestion of insects.

Also, Cobra lillies are native to Oregon too.

Source: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=305907

I love Big Thicket!!! thumbsup.gif My son has a venus fly trap and my best friend has one tatooed on her stomach!! w00t.gif
NME_locus
QUOTE(novaceleste @ Mar 23 2006, 09:26 PM) [snapback]1117667[/snapback]

I love Big Thicket!!! thumbsup.gif My son has a venus fly trap and my best friend has one tatooed on her stomach!! w00t.gif


I just realized your from Texas! w00t.gif Hello fellow Texan. Woo hoo!
novaceleste
QUOTE(NME_locus @ Mar 23 2006, 04:53 PM) [snapback]1117807[/snapback]

I just realized your from Texas! w00t.gif Hello fellow Texan. Woo hoo!

And yes, I can see you were raised in Houston! That is where I am! blink.gif
frogfish
Texas has good Bass fishing original.gif

Back on topic now...
Oregon and Washington do have pitcher plants
jobot37
There are Cobra Lillies all over the place out near Florence, theres this big old bog thats just full of 'em, it is one of the coolest things to see.
NME_locus
That's strange that there are bogs. I don't think that we have any bogs that I'm aware of. Down in Texas, you can find a variety of carnivorous plants at the local grocery store like Kroger's or Randall's in the plants and flowers section. Is that everywhere or just us?
novaceleste
QUOTE(NME_locus @ Mar 24 2006, 12:10 PM) [snapback]1118832[/snapback]

That's strange that there are bogs. I don't think that we have any bogs that I'm aware of. Down in Texas, you can find a variety of carnivorous plants at the local grocery store like Kroger's or Randall's in the plants and flowers section. Is that everywhere or just us?

sad.gif Randall's is only known to Texans, It is actually owned by Safeway now, not the Onsteads. sad.gif

You can also find them at Home Depot (Go Tony Stewart tongue.gif ), there is also a mail order catalog!! I have one here at the house. If anyone is intrested, I'll find out the name.
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