{"id":7861,"date":"2026-07-11T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/a-maine-collectors-garden-with-a-bite\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:21:11","slug":"a-maine-collectors-garden-with-a-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/a-maine-collectors-garden-with-a-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maine Collector\u2019s Garden with a Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Not every plant collection is soft and sweet. Harriet\u2019s carnivorous plant collection in Otisfield, Maine, features pitcher plants, sundews, and Venus flytraps in a slate sink summer display that is both ornamental and wonderfully unusual. Harriet says:<\/p>\n<p><em>GPOD recently asked for collections. Mine is a collector\u2019s garden put together as if it were an ornamental garden. There are peonies, daylilies, and irises, many of which have been featured in the blog over the years. Two compact collections are more recent, and both feature smaller containerized plants. The rock garden troughs are one, and the carnivorous plants, in this group of photos, are another. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I became interested in growing pitcher plants from a submission to this blog a few years ago. A container with one plant was part of someone\u2019s garden. I now grow several species of pitcher plants (<\/em>Sarracenia cvs., Zones 6\u20139<em>), several species of sundews (<\/em>Drosera cvs., Zones 3\u201310<em>) as well as the Venus flytrap (<\/em>Dionaea muscipula, Zones 7\u201310<em>) in my Maine garden. All are outside in the summer. I display them in a slate sink. I use tiles to raise them if we have had ample rainfall and remove them as the level lowers. They must be watered with rain or distilled water, and never tap water, because of minerals. I stockpile rainwater collected from my roof for them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>A slate sink holds the collection during the summer: tall in back, from left, green pitcher plant (<\/em>Sarracenia oreophila, Zones 7\u20139)<em> and yellow pitcher plant (<\/em>Sarracenia flava, Zones 6\u20139<em>). There are several pots of purple pitcher plant (<\/em>Sarracenia purpurea, Zones 2\u20139<em>)<\/em><em> with shorter reddish pitchers. A hybrid pitcher plant is flowering in the front, second from the left. There are also three Venus flytraps in the photo, including the front left. There are several sundews, which are small and short, and several pots with germinating seeds (on the right).<br \/><\/em><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120412\/gpod2.jpg\" alt=\"Pitcher plant in pot\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120412\/gpod2.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120412\/gpod2-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120412\/gpod2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120412\/gpod2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>The hardiest pitcher plants are the purple pitcher plant, which are native to Maine. They can overwinter outside submerged in a vegetable bed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120609\/gpod3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120609\/gpod3.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120609\/gpod3-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120609\/gpod3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120609\/gpod3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>I grew some from seed, and the first bloomed this season. Like other pitcher plants, the flowers are unusual and last all season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231599 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120725\/gpod4-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Pitcher plants carnivorous plants \" width=\"975\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120725\/gpod4-rotated.jpg 975w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120725\/gpod4-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120725\/gpod4-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>My current favorite is green pitcher plant. Its pitchers are tall, and it flowers prolifically. It is said to be endangered in its native habitat, the Southeastern United States, but I found the seeds I collected from mine easy to germinate. It is said to be hardy, but I don\u2019t dare test it. So I put it with many others, which I also think might be marginal but may need winter dormancy, in coolers in my garage, where they are buffered from temperature fluctuations. They do freeze. In a particularly bitter cold snap, I move the coolers into my mudroom just in case the low gets too low but then back out to the garage as soon as I can, so they don\u2019t break dormancy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231600 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120928\/gpod5-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"pitcher plant \" width=\"975\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120928\/gpod5-rotated.jpg 975w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120928\/gpod5-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09120928\/gpod5-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yellow pitcher plant is also from the Southeast and said to be hardy but also goes into the cooler for the winter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121101\/gpod6.jpg\" alt=\"venus flytrap\" width=\"906\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121101\/gpod6.jpg 906w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121101\/gpod6-700x725.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121101\/gpod6-768x796.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Venus flytraps need a winter dormancy to do well and thrive outside in the summer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231602 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121233\/gpod7.jpg\" alt=\"carnivorous plants\" width=\"875\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121233\/gpod7.jpg 875w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121233\/gpod7-700x1040.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121233\/gpod7-768x1141.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>In the front is the tender spoon-leaved sundew (<\/em>Drosera spatulata, Zones 8\u201310<em>), and behind it is a single Tracy\u2019s sundew (<\/em>Drosera filiformis, Zones 5\u20138<em>), a sundew native to the Eastern United States from Nova Scotia to the Gulf Coast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231603 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121359\/gpod8.jpg\" alt=\"pitcher plant\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121359\/gpod8.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121359\/gpod8-700x634.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121359\/gpod8-1200x1087.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121359\/gpod8-768x696.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>My Tracy\u2019s sundew seems to come back from seed (in the previous picture by itself in a bed of self-seeded sphagnum moss, and in this picture self-seeded with a purple pitcher plant).<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-231604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121524\/gpod9.jpg\" alt=\"sundew carnivorous plant\" width=\"1147\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121524\/gpod9.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121524\/gpod9-700x793.jpg 700w, https:\/\/images.finegardening.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/09121524\/gpod9-768x870.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1147px) 100vw, 1147px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>My favorite sundew, Cape Sundew (<\/em>Drosera capensis, Zones 7\u201310<em>) got too dry earlier this spring, but I am now nursing it back to its former glory, seen here in 2021. The other is doing well as a clump in the previous photo. Both tender spoon-leaved sundew and Tracy\u2019s sundew overwinter indoors by a cool window.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing this wonderfully unusual collection with us, Harriet!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>We want to see YOUR garden!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Have photos to share? 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