Now I read that it's bad that a flyftrap sits under snow .
I think I'm in zone 5, and some people here in canada (but not in ottawa) can keep VFT's outdoors yearround with temps as low as -30 celcius.
I think I'm in zone 5, and some people here in canada (but not in ottawa) can keep VFT's outdoors yearround with temps as low as -30 celcius.
I'm in zone 5 and single digit Fahrenheit temps freeze my bog garden solid. Frost heave pulls the VFT out of the ground and makes them dead. Just sayin!
Wow... I was just posting in the "when to bring them in?" thread that people underestimate how much cold VFTs can take, but this is hard to believe.
Minus 30 C is -22 Fahrenheit, right?
That's a good 30-40 F. degrees colder than it ever gets in the Wilmington area. And it only gets that cold briefly and rarely.
It's really hard to believe VFTs could live outside all winter in temps even approaching that.
Sounds more like "hoar ice" rather than frost heaves and, that would surely kill VFT's. A good blanket of snow usually doesn't let that happen.
I'm in NH on the line of zones 5 and 6 and my VFT's stay out year round. They've been under about a foot of snow for a month now. They come every spring no worse for the wear. They are in the ground in bogs however. I might worry about them in pots up here, but not in zone 8. They should be just fine.
A lot of the discussion has been about being in the ground versus a pot. What about a very large 29 gallon mini bog contained? I know temperature does not fluctuate as much. CP connection, if we are going to have a low of 18 degrees followed by lows the next few days in the 20s, should I just leave the plants where they are or cover them with something?
Phil
Here's a snap shot taken on the 31st Jan 2010...
There's a darkness on the stem of the leafs so it may die this one ...
Noddy