{"title":"Dionaea","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow to grow Venus Fly Trap\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe key to successfully cultivating your Venus fly trap is to mimic its native North Carolina swamp habitat...with hot humid summers and acidic, nutrient-poor, consistently moist (not wet) soils. While Venus fly traps can be grown as a house plant in bright light, they must have a cold winter dormancy to survive long term so they are better grown in an unheated greenhouse or outdoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat type of soil is best for Dionaea?\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe produce our Venus fly traps in pure peat moss which not only holds water well, but is naturally acidic. During the growing season, we do not allow our containerized Venus fly traps to dry out, and during winter we drop the temperature to 32-38 degrees F, keeping them just barely moist.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eDo Venus flytraps need fertilizer?\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eVenus fly traps never need fertilizer since they get all the nutrients they need from the decomposing peat moss and from stray insects that they catch. Never feed Venus fly traps meat...animal flesh has much more fat in it than insects do and will cause the flytrap to rot and die.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eVenus fly trap (\u003cem\u003eDionaea muscipula\u003c\/em\u003e) is undoubtedly one of the most exotic plant there is, fascinating us with its carnivorous nature and lightning-quick traps. Venus fly traps are American native plants, growing wild alongside sarracenia (pitcher plants) in low, sandy, nutrient-poor areas within a 90 mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eBuy only ethically propagated Venus flytraps\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough there are millions of Venus fly traps in containers and in gardens thanks to tissue culture, there are less than 40,000 individual Venus flytrap plants left in the wild due to development and plant poachers. We hope you will support ethical production and buy Venus fly trap only from folks like us who sell nursery-propagated plants.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dionaea-muscipula-king-henry","title":"Dionaea muscipula King Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003eDionaea 'King Henry' from Don Elkins is the largest \u003ca title=\"See all of our Venus fly trap cultivars\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plantdelights.sbs\/collections\/venus-flytrap-plant-dionaea-where-to-buy\"\u003eVenus fly trap\u003c\/a\u003e cultivar we've ever seen. This vigorous fly trap clone, named after the equally huge King Henry VIII, reaches 6\" tall with huge (for a fly trap) 1.5\" long traps...yellow on the exterior with a contrasting reddish orange interior pad. As with all Venus fly traps, moist peat moss is a perfect growing media and remember, they must have a cold period in winter to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21025534789,"sku":"3700","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Dionaea-muscipula-King-Henry.i-3700.s-66756.r-1_25029903-1075-4c87-a563-3d91feb96110.jpg?v=1789757717"},{"product_id":"dionaea-muscipula-akai-ryu","title":"Dionaea muscipula Akai Ryu","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreen fly traps are from Venus. Red fly traps are from Mars! Dionaea 'Akai Ryu' is a spectacular and vigorous 1997 introduction from the \u003ca title=\"Link to the Atlanta Botanical Garden opening in a new window.\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantabg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAtlanta Botanical Garden\u003c\/a\u003e...the result from years of line-breeding by carnivorous plant guru Ron Gagliardo. Dionaea 'Akai Ryu', which means \"red dragon,\" has bright red stems ending in carmine-red traps. This is truly a stunning conversation piece when grown either in a container garden or a bog garden.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21025758661,"sku":"4107","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Dionaea-muscipula-Akai-Ryu.i-4107.s-66544.r-1.jpg?v=1791487808"},{"product_id":"dionaea-muscipula-dente","title":"Dionaea muscipula Dente","description":"\u003cp\u003eDionaea 'Dente' is a unique selection of our native Venus Fly Trap with short, triangular teeth, that originated as a tissue culture mutation. This mutation allows it to capture smaller insects, due to the lack of gaps in the teeth of more typical meth-addicted clones. The traps on this particularly vigorous selection are also held at the end of longer than typical stalks. The traps themselves are green on the outside with red interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40420051451991,"sku":"4109","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Dionaea-muscipula-Dente.i-4109.s-67388.r-1.jpg?v=1791198227"},{"product_id":"dionaea-muscipula-red-piranha","title":"Dionaea muscipula Red Piranha","description":"\u003cp\u003eDionaea 'Red Piranha' is a fascinating Ed Reed seedling selection with bright red traps and deliciously jagged teeth. Like all Venus fly-traps, they grow best in 8 hours of sun and in a peat moss or a peat\/sand mix that's kept moist, but not sloppy wet.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41463537598551,"sku":"17900","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Dionaea-muscipula-Red-Piranha.i-17900.s-67900.r-1.jpg?v=1792069839"},{"product_id":"dionaea-muscipula-b-52","title":"Dionaea muscipula B 52","description":"\u003cp\u003eDionaea 'B-52' is a large trap selection of Venus fly trap, introduced by Georgia native plant specialist, Henning von Schmelling. The bright red traps can reach almost 2\" in length. As with all fly traps, 6-8 hours of full sun and moist (not wet) toes (roots), and no fertilizer is essential for them to thrive.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42450482200663,"sku":"17899","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Dionaea-muscipula-B-52.i-17899.s-68293.r-1.jpg?v=1789756594"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/collections\/Dionaea-muscipula-King-Henry-1900x350_f7686880-b873-475d-b5dc-a7f333cd7700.jpg?v=1762791742","url":"https:\/\/www.plantdelights.sbs\/collections\/venus-flytrap-plant-dionaea-where-to-buy.oembed","provider":"Plant Delights Nursery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}