Pinguicula fiorii

[SubRosa]

This is a fairly recently described cold temperate species from Italy. I'll plunge the pot into the bog to let it winter over naturally, and plant it in the calcareous fen I'm building to catch the overflow from the bog:

 

[Huntsmanshorn]

Interesting, do you do anything special to keep the vermin from eating your plants as they overwinter?

 

[SubRosa]

It wasn't a big problem until I started mulching with pine needles. I lost more plants to critters than I ever did to cold, so I won't be doing that anymore.

 

[madrone]

Very cool - I don't have many of the cold-temperates, but the ones I do are much-enjoyed. Hope yours overwinters just fine!!

 

[DragonsEye]

Hope it does well for ya! Being an apt-dweller, I can’t do cold temperate species so I just live vicariously through others.

 

[Huntsmanshorn]

It wasn't a big problem until I started mulching with pine needles. I lost more plants to critters than I ever did to cold, so I won't be doing that anymore.

So what do you do? Just leave them exposed to the elements?

 

[SubRosa]

So what do you do? Just leave them exposed to the elements?

I did it for the first 2 years I had my in ground bog. Never with these particular plants, but I don't anticipate any problems. We've had a couple fairly mild winters the last couple years, but the first winter was more typical, with temps a few degrees below zero on a couple occasions. I had minimal losses.