Sarracenia better looking container(s) ideas please

Mine live in cheapo washing up bowls, amidst sphagnum moss. You need to keep an eye on the sphagnum moss as it can swamp smaller pitcher plants, generally the taller forms are not. affected.

 

Not the same but we planted out some Darlingtonia californica (Cobra lily) next to our pond in a boggy area. They were planted out in 2009 and survived the very cold winter of 2010 (-15). They are planted directly into the ground and over the years they have multiplied and doing very well. They do flower in situ as well. We did try to plant some Sarracenia purpurea in the same place but they didn't survive being outdoors.

 

I have just one pitcher plant @JWK and it took a while to find a pot that I could put it in on the patio. Luckily I got this dish for just a fiver and it came with 5 assorted plants too.

I have put an insert into the dish so that I can remove the pitcher easily, see if there's enough water in there without removing it and I don't want the outside dish in contact with water all the time.

First photo is my dish with the pitcher in.



Next photo shows it all emptied out and excess water removed after all the rain today. The black parts are cut from a large plastic plant pot.

In winter I do put it in the GH as the dish is not frost proof.



Funny that some of the insects, once inside the pitchers, do chew their way out the side and escape!

 

@cactus_girl Our insectivorous plants sit in pots in troughs that always have rain water of about an inch in the winter but as the weather warms up (when?) the troughs have more rain water as the plants are taking up more as well as evaporation. Our Sarracenias are in our conservatory which is unheated in the winter.

 

Some of our Sarracenias in the conservatory.

 

Those are monster-sized, @On the Levels!

 

They are whoppers @On the Levels! And how nice to be able to view them in your conservatory. I'm not really sure where they are best kept. Monty Don once said they are happy outside all year. In the GH it gets too hot - about 36c max if I remember. I have had mine in the dining room a few times, when it gets below zero in the GH. At the moment it's blowing a gale outside. Probably not the best for mine.

 

I used to grow these and if you look at where the originate from you will find that they can take some really high temperatures and fairly low ones.
Just as long as the compost is sodden.

 

@cactus_girl we have Darlingtonias outside in a bog area that have been there since 2010 when temps went down to -15. We did try Sarracenias but they hated it so that is why we grow them indoors. Agree that the conservatory can get very hot in the summer months if we are out and not having doors open but as you can see from the photo they seem to like it.

 

@pete and @On the Levels, mine had no label on it, but looking at images on Google it is probably from North America. I think as long as it has plenty of water and insects it will probably be OK. It did have a lovely red flower last year.

I did notice online that Birmingham Botanical Gardens has a display. I haven't been there for years so must make the effort. I remember there being lots of cacti too. It's easy and quick to get there from here straight through the centre of Brum.

May even buy some more!

 

All Sarracenias come from North America and they are found from the Southern States of the US all the way up into Alberta.
They are prone to hybridise, hence nurseries with large numbers of different varieties.

 

I used to cross pollinate and create my own hybrids, I think purpurea was the hardiest, but I also had S. maxima and S. leucophylla, not sure about the spelling, it was a long time ago.