Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and more.

Spring Plant Sale at the Fullerton Arboretum, 1900 Associated Road, Fullerton, features more than 100 California native and ornamental plants grown at the arboretum, along with pots of herbs.

The pitcher plant’s showy flowers are held aloft like balled flags, ... Outdoors in containers: This is the easiest way to grow hardy bog plants, but make sure the pot is big enough.

As plants in the garden or inside the home, carnivorous pitchers are guaranteed to become the subject of conversation at every party. These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified ...

Do not plant in clay pots, as salts tend to build up in them and are detrimental. Water well after repotting. Feeding: If grown where the plant cannot catch its own supper of insects, add an ...

The pitcher plant, which has hundreds of species and hails from the families Nepenthaceaeand Sarraceniaceae, stands up, like a carafe placed in a pot, and tends to be longer than a monkey cup.

Q. I won a 4-inch potted toad lily and planted it in a whisky barrel. It draped over the sides and from late September until now has had a profusion of remarkable spotted lavender blooms. It is ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

As houseplants, carnivorous pitchers are guaranteed to become the subject of conversation at every party. These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified leaves that, while they bear a s… ...