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Post by Voodoo Child on Aug 29, 2016 21:00:27 GMT -5
I went on vacation in mid-August at Oak Island. On the way home, I stopped at the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden:
3800 Canterbury Road Wilmington, NC
It's near Independence Mall, behind Alderman Elementary School. You go past the school, and there's a small gravel parking lot on the right. This is no formal planted garden like what you'd see at the arboretum; instead, it looks like a preserved piece of nature. After a short walk through the woods, the trees open up into a 3/4 acre pocosin. There is a 50-foot wooden boardwalk down the right side plus stepping-stone pathways through the pocosin.
The garden has a nice variety of carnivorous plants. All 4 species of North Carolina-native pitcher plants (Sarracenia flava, minor, purpurea, and rubra) are present, along with a few white trumpet pitcher plants (S. leucophylla) from north Florida. Despite the garden getting "raided" a few years ago by poachers, there are a fair number of Venus flytraps, especially in the back half. There was a sign for Drosera capillaris sundews, but I didn't see any. No D. intermedia either, which I found odd.
When I got home, I checked the area on Google Maps and made a funny discover. Enter the street address, switch to "Earth" view, and zoom in. You can clearly see the yellow-green clumps of S. flava in the photo. Their color is very distinctive and doesn't blend in with any of the other vegetation.
If you're in the Wilmington area, it's worth a stop at the garden. Admission is free.
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Post by Voodoo Child on Sept 3, 2017 20:02:18 GMT -5
An update. I donated some threadleaf sundews (Drosera filiformis var filiformis) to the garden. After I finished planting them, I spotted the Drosera capillaris sundews. These were no tiny 1-inch diameter plants; they were huge, a good 3-4 inches in diameter! Very nice.
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