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Florida’s Carnivorous Plants: Understanding, Identifying, and Cultivating the State’s Native Species

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Carnivorous Plant nursery specializing in Nepenthes. We offer quality Venus flytraps, Pitcher Plants, Butterworts and more! Ships throughout the US. 🪰
Our next in-person event is April 9th at the UNCSA Our next in-person event is April 9th at the UNCSA ACE Theatre Complex! Join us for the high-camp musical we all love, screening as part of the monthly OUT at the Movies series. We’ll be there with a live carnivorous plant sale—take home your own real-life “Audrey II” (no human sacrifices required!) and browse a wild selection of bug-eating plants before or after the film. Limited seating—reserve your spot today: https://outatthemovies.org/little-shop-of-horrors/
🌱🪰 Spring has sprung and the flytraps are waking u 🌱🪰 Spring has sprung and the flytraps are waking up! This week only — now through April 5th — all Venus flytrap plugs are just $10 each, and shipping is a flat $10 🚚 No coupon code needed. kennycoogan.com We currently have these cultivars available: Chinese Dumplings 🥟, Maroon Monster 🩸, Akai Ryu 🐉, and Towering Giant 🗼— and we even have some Chompy the Venus Flytrap Plush who ship in a pot! These young plants are just coming out of dormancy and ready to take off with the warmer days ahead. Pot them up in a classic carnivorous mix (1/2 peat + 1/2 perlite or 100% long fiber sphagnum), give them full sun or strong grow lights, and watch them thrive. They’ll ship bare root for safe travel, and every order includes a helpful grow guide to get you started. Live plants ship Mondays only — don’t miss this limited spring kickoff sale! kennycoogan.com #venusflytrapsale #venusflytrapdeal #venusflytrapplugs #venusflytrapplants #venusflytrapcollection
We will be at @odenbrewing, Greensboro NC today fo We will be at @odenbrewing, Greensboro NC today for a HUGE plant pop-up 👀We will be bringing a couple of these Nepenthes spathulata x (densiflora x spectabilis) BE-4589 with us! It's nice to watch the new pitchers turn vibrant orange and red as they mature. 🗓 Saturday, March 28 ⏰ 12:00–3:00 PM 📍 Oden Brewing Company, Greensboro, NC See you there 🌿 #GreensboroNC #TriadNCPlants #NorthCarolinaPlants #NCPlantPeople #TriadGardening
#flytrapfriday! 🪰🌱 Check out this “Chinese Dumpli #flytrapfriday! 🪰🌱 Check out this “Chinese Dumpling” we carried through the winter… and it’s officially waking up 😍 Fresh growth with gnarly traps. 🥟 We’ll be bringing a few of these with us tomorrow at the Oden Brewing Company pop-up 👀 🗓 Saturday, March 28 ⏰ 12:00–3:00 PM 📍 Oden Brewing Company, Greensboro, NC If you’ve been wanting a unique Dionaea cultivar, this is a good one to snag while they’re looking their best coming out of dormancy. See you there 🌿 #GreensboroNC #TriadNCPlants #NorthCarolinaPlants #NCPlantPeople #TriadGardening
🌱 HUGE Plant Sale Pop-Up THIS Saturday 🌱 Calling 🌱 HUGE Plant Sale Pop-Up THIS Saturday 🌱 Calling all plant people — this is your sign to clear some space at home 👀 🗓 Saturday, March 28 ⏰ 12:00–3:00 PM 📍@odenbrewing We’re busy getting things sorted in the greenhouse and gearing up for Saturday’s sale — lots of plants being cleaned up, organized, and ready to go 🌿 Expect rare, unusual, and hard-to-find plants — including some absolute show-stoppers you won’t see in your typical shop. And we'll be joined by our good friend: 🪴H’Lois from One More House Plant ✨ Featured in this post: Nepenthes lowii × tentaculata (BE-3970 LARGE) A true natural hybrid from Gng. Trus Madi, propagated from original nursery mother stock. This cross is rarely seen in the wild and has taken decades to produce sustainably from cuttings — and it shows. Incredible form, serious collector plant.👀 This one isn’t quite ready to make its debut this weekend… but wow, it is gorgeous. 🍻 Come hang out, grab a drink, and find your next favorite plant 🧺 Pro tip: bring a wagon, box, or tote… you’ll need it 💵 Pro tip: Cash avoids processing fees for buyers See you THIS Saturday 🌿
✂️🌿 Everyone got a haircut this week. We trimmed ✂️🌿 Everyone got a haircut this week. We trimmed back last year’s growth on all of our Sarracenia just in time before the new spring growth begins to emerge. It’s always satisfying to reset the plants and make room for fresh, healthy pitchers. All of our Sarracenia are grown in our large 4x8 water table beds, where they stay consistently moist and ready to take off as the season warms up. Spring growth is right around the corner 🌱 #Sarracenia #CarnivorousPlants #PitcherPlants #SarraceniaCollection #CarnivorousPlantNursery
Pretty sure this is Genlisea flexuosa and not a hy Pretty sure this is Genlisea flexuosa and not a hybrid, but I welcome the corrections — especially since we also have Genlisea lobata × flexuosa and I’m not an expert on Genlisea (yet). What I do love are their incredible corkscrew traps 🌀 Genlisea (often called corkscrew plants) are carnivorous plants that trap and digest tiny soil-dwelling organisms using specialized underground leaves. These leaves form twisted, spiral-shaped tubes that guide prey inward where they can’t escape — a really unique adaptation among carnivorous plants. This species thrives in bright to strong light and enjoys the occasional tray flooding, along with a bimonthly foliar fertilizer to encourage a floriferous display - just like yesterday's Utricularia! The reason these flowers are so compact to each other is because the plant was grown very close to a grow light, which kept the growth tight and condensed. Still learning these (even though I've had them for years), but absolutely fascinated by them 🌿🌀 #Genlisea #GenliseaFlexuosa #CarnivorousPlants #CorkscrewPlants #CarnivorousPlantCommunity
I just broke this pot up of Utricularia warburgii. I just broke this pot up of Utricularia warburgii. We only had one, and we’re excited to potentially offer it for the first time in the near future — it’s currently from our private collection. The flowers are absolutely wild — they really do look like little ghosts with their arms stretched out and mouths wide open 👻🌸 Utricularia warburgii is a terrestrial bladderwort, meaning it lives in soil and uses tiny bladder-like traps to catch microscopic prey. The traps work by creating a vacuum, snapping open to suck in unsuspecting organisms — one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom. It thrives in bright to strong light and enjoys the occasional tray flooding, along with a bimonthly foliar fertilizer to encourage a floriferous display. Given the right conditions, it can spread and form a beautiful mat of foliage topped with those delicate purple blooms. We’ll keep everyone posted when it becomes available 🌿 #Utricularia #UtriculariaWarburgii #CarnivorousPlants #TerrestrialUtricularia #CarnivorousPlantCommunity
Unboxing Borneo Exotics Import 📦 Clips from the Unboxing Borneo Exotics Import 📦 Clips from the past week as we unpacked and processed our latest Borneo Exotics Nepenthes import. Each plant is carefully inspected, sorted, and prepped for its next stage. Most of the plants featured were pre-sold through the pre-order. The remaining plants are being acclimated and will be available locally in the coming months. Our next Borneo Exotics pre-order will begin in July, with plants expected to ship around July 29th. Our pre-orders are built over 4–5 months, with plants added incrementally as availability updates from Borneo Exotics. Once the order reaches size, we schedule the import. If there are specific Borneo Exotics plants you’re looking for, we can often arrange special orders — feel free to reach out. #Nepenthes #NepenthesHybrid #RareNepenthes #CarnivorousPlants #NepenthesCollection
🌿 Day 3 of Borneo Exotics Pre-Order Fulfillment! 🌿 🌿 Day 3 of Borneo Exotics Pre-Order Fulfillment! 🌿 We’re officially on day 3 of processing your amazing Borneo Exotics pre-orders! About 75% of orders shipped out Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final batch is heading out this morning. A huge THANK YOU to everyone for the support — it’s been a busy (and exciting) few days getting these plants packed up and on their way to you. Shoutout to H’Lois from @onemorehouseplant for jumping in and helping us pack over the last two days — and she’s back again today helping pot up the “leftovers”! Absolute legend 🙌 You can actually catch both of us in person at the 🌱 HUGE Plant Sale Pop-Up at Oden Brewing Company 🌱 🗓 Saturday, March 28 ⏰ 12:00–3:00 PM Two awesome local Triad plant nurseries in one spot — come say hi! Thank you for your patience while we worked through everything. You should have received your tracking number emails — give UPS and USPS another day to get everything scanned into their systems. And seriously… you all scored some really beautiful plants. We can’t wait for them to arrive and settle into their new homes 🌱✨ #Nepenthes #NepenthesHybrid #NepenthesCollection #CarnivorousPlants #RareNepenthes
I don’t know what got into Ryan today, but during I don’t know what got into Ryan today, but during pre-order prep he gathered a full bouquet of Nepenthes ampullaria ‘Lime Twist’ — BE-3390… and we had to make him pose for it 🌿💐 All of these are already pre-sold, but more will be coming this JULY with the next Borneo Exotics pre-order. This stunning cultivar is a classic swamp-dwelling species that, when mature, forms dense basal rosettes — creating a carpet of pitchers with little to no leaves. It’s an easy grower in warm (to HOT), humid conditions with consistently moist, acidic media. ‘Lime Twist’ is a carefully selected clone featuring the body coloration of ‘Harlequin’ paired with a striking lime-green peristome that can develop maroon striping under higher light. It’s one of those plants that looks unreal in person. Today marks day 2 of prepping and packaging all pre-orders (it’s a marathon 😅). If all goes well, we’re hoping to start potting up the “leftovers” later today — which should be ready for sale in about 6–8 weeks. #NepenthesAmpullaria #LimeTwist #CarnivorousPlants #BorneoExotics #PlantNursery
So what is everyone else up to today? #borneoexo So what is everyone else up to today? #borneoexotics #nepenthesimport #rareplants #nepenthes
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