My visit to Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:58 pm
During my trip to Wilimington and Croatan National Forest, I took the opportunity to visit Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden. In fact, I was very graciously given a place to stay with the Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden caretaker and his wife. I cannot thank them enough for opening their house to me and allowing me to use their residence as my home base during my stay in the area.
Below are a few photos I took of the garden that I wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!
Also, don't miss the thread on the Rehder Giant Flytraps that I was lucky enough to harvest from the garden, with permission of the garden caretaker, for preservation and propagation in cultivation.
View from the boardwalk as you enter the garden
Me in the garden with the sign informing visitors about Pocosin bogs
Loads of Sarracenia - flytraps and sundews are in there too, but they're very small and hard to see from this distance
A couple of really nice flytraps
And I found this especially cool! This is one of the flytraps we sent to the garden in 2013 to plant in the garden (the caretaker pointed out many, many of the flytraps we'd sent him over the last couple of years to help repopulate the garden after it was poached). The flytrap in the below photo is actually an FTS Crimson Sawtooth, which is a plant I started from seed in sterile tissue culture way back in March 2009. It's incredible to see a flytrap I created in such unnatural conditions as tissue culture, growing in a wild setting in its natural habitat.
Below are a few photos I took of the garden that I wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!
Also, don't miss the thread on the Rehder Giant Flytraps that I was lucky enough to harvest from the garden, with permission of the garden caretaker, for preservation and propagation in cultivation.
View from the boardwalk as you enter the garden
Me in the garden with the sign informing visitors about Pocosin bogs
Loads of Sarracenia - flytraps and sundews are in there too, but they're very small and hard to see from this distance
A couple of really nice flytraps
And I found this especially cool! This is one of the flytraps we sent to the garden in 2013 to plant in the garden (the caretaker pointed out many, many of the flytraps we'd sent him over the last couple of years to help repopulate the garden after it was poached). The flytrap in the below photo is actually an FTS Crimson Sawtooth, which is a plant I started from seed in sterile tissue culture way back in March 2009. It's incredible to see a flytrap I created in such unnatural conditions as tissue culture, growing in a wild setting in its natural habitat.
