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Gardening
My Husband’s Green Venus Flytrap Is Blooming
This is a significant event at our house
The hurricanes last year ripped the screens out of our pool enclosure. Because we were not in any danger or living outside, it took until this week for our turn to come up for repair. The combination of two hurricanes severely damaged homes, making them, unfortunately, uninhabitable. Uninhabitable places had first pick of contractors.
My spouse and I are gardeners. I prefer flowers and landscaping, while he grows veggies and weird plants. We tend to the house plants together.
He has carnivorous plants that have been picky about staying alive, growing, but not thriving. So imagine my surprise when my honey excitedly told me his green Venus flytrap was growing a bloom as opposed to the red Venus flytrap fighting for its life.
I pretended to be as excited as he was as he told me all the things he had done to pump the plant up. I thought it was great that the plant was blooming, but it did not make my heart beat faster.
No tap water, it kills them.
Venus flytraps like living in a mixture of sand and sphagnum peat moss
The pot that the plant was living in is white and 6” deep
