D. intermedia

[schloaty]

I want to make a small bog garden with D. Intermedia (at least to start). I've read that they can take it down to -25 degrees celcius ( -13 farenheit)? I live in southern NYS, where we will rarely go below 0.
The spot will get roughly 4-6 hours of sun, and all day indirect light. Does this sound like enough? All I've found is "give it plenty of light..."

thanks for any thoughts....

 

[Joseph Clemens]

Sounds like it has a very good chance for success, if all other environmental factors are maintained suitably, i.e. water, amount and purity, media/substrate, humidity, air movement, etc. I have seen Drosera intermedia growing in even less favorable habitats than the one you describe.

 

[carnivorous23]

I've seen it growing wild in the other end of NY. I think water is probably more important than light. I've seen some nice ones in shade, though they stayed a green color, and didn't seem like they had flowered nearly as much as those in more sun. The important thing seems to be water, they like to be waterlogged.

 

[schloaty]

Cool. Thanks for the input. I plan on heading to Home Depot in late feb or early March (depending on how long the ground is frozed solid) to get some plastic liner, pete moss and sand.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

You know, you could omit the sand if you wanted to save urself a few extra bucks as I have seen D.Intermedia in almost every peat bog I have been to here in nothern New york, they are usually ALWAYS in PURE peat with about an inch of water under them, the plants themselves are floating like a buoy anchored by thier stem and the floating crown and leaves are above the water.