Category: Sundews

Sundews need an environment that is conducive to their growth in order to thrive. They can be grown in a garden or in a pot, but if you’re growing your sundew in a pot, you will need to monitor it to ensure that it doesn’t outgrow its pot. When this […]

If you’re interested in growing and taking care of carnivorous plants, then a cape sundew, also known as Drosera, is one of the best types of carnivorous plants with which to start. Sundews come in more than two hundred species and do need to be cared for differently than other […]

Carnivorous plants can be both beautiful and deadly, to the right creature. It all depends on your perspective, and to a bug in your home, a sundew can be a deadly predator simply by being attractive. Feeding a sundew isn’t always necessary. If your home provides the occasional fruit fly, […]

Carnivorous plants are some of the most interesting plants to grow indoors. The fact that they eat bugs is just so strange to those of us who are used to growing more typically fertilizer eating plants. If you want to start growing carnivorous plants, then the sundew is one of […]

Drosera, commonly known as the Sundew plant, is a carnivorous plant that comes in at least 194 species. These alien-looking plants lure and capture insects using a sticky substance secreted by specialized glands that cover the leaf’s surface. Any insects they catch supplement the poor mineral nutrition found in the […]