{"id":72640,"date":"2016-05-10T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=72640"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:19:49","slug":"the-exacting-requirements-of-pitcher-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=72640","title":{"rendered":"the exacting requirements of pitcher plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2016\/P1011617_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011617_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing sarracenia in a sink, as seen at Flora Grubb Gardens, is a not-too-subtle reminder of the one thing you must never forget to grow them successfully.<br \/>\nWater, of course.  These are bog plants after all.  But there&#8217;s something else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2016\/P1011618_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011618_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Never, never give them water out of your faucet. Or water you\u2019ve let sit in a pail outdoors, thinking you\u2019ve leached out any impurities, which I&#8217;ve tried in the past.<br \/>\nThey hate the minerals in our tap water and must be given distilled water. Maybe your tap water varies.  Here in Long Beach, Calif., we&#8217;ve got some hard water flowing through our pipes.<br \/>\nI\u2019m only bringing this up because I\u2019m seeing these sun-loving native bog plants at sales and shows again, and I always ask about the water thing, hoping the rules maybe have changed or relaxed.  Um, no.  Here&#8217;s a garden fantasy:  Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have distilled water delivered every week for your pitcher plants?<br \/>\nOther than the water sensitivity, these self-feeding, carnivorous plants are said to be fairly easy to grow.  Acidic, peaty soil, no fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/ucbgsf712\/_MG_9353.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pitchers are as sexy as the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those of us in zone 9-10 might also have an issue with their winter dormancy needs of a cold period for 2-4 months.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to hear any success stories in zone 10.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing sarracenia in a sink, as seen at Flora Grubb Gardens, is a not-too-subtle reminder of the one thing you must never forget to grow them successfully. Water, of course. These are bog plants after all. But there&#8217;s something else&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=72640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2137],"tags":[4512,4511],"class_list":["post-72640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plant-crushes","tag-bog-plants","tag-sarracenia-leucophylla-hybrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-iTC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72640"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72755,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions\/72755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}