winterresistant sarracenias

Cyrille Caillie (86134@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:53:04 GMT+0100

Hy,
does enybody has some experience with Sarracenia in cold contitions?

It's known that S.purpurea ssp purpurea is absolute winterresistant
(-30 C). But for the other there is no exact informations. In most
books you can find the information that the temperature must stay
over 0 C.

I live in germany and have a small artificial bog in my garden.
The avarage statistic january temperature is 0 C
The min. temperature of the ground in 5cm is 0 C

This year I put a two year old S.purpurea ssp venosa in my bog.
For since X-mas the max.temperatue was less than 0 C ,the lowest
temperature was -10 C. But the plant is still locking fine!

Has enybody experience with s.flava, s.rubra or darlingtnonia in this
conditions?
Has enybody experence with heating an artifical bog?

Regards
Cyrille