Sometime in the night raccoons discovered the bog and destroyed some of my best sarrs. It was obvious they were after the bugs inside the pitchers. I cannot afford to put an electric fence around the bog at this time, so I suspect they will destroy the rest of the plants in there in the coming nights as I am away from home overnight most of the week. They destroyed my gorgeous Doreen's Colossus, a large-pitcher sarr hybrid, Oreophila, a copper-top-like flava, minor okee giant, and a large Darlingtonia. They did not dig up the rhizomes, yet, so this fall I will probably pot the rhizomes up and hope they will have enough energy stored to make it through winter (losing almost all pitchers at this time of year may affect that?) as I see no point in keeping up the bog if I cannot protect it from marauders. I have learned with the ponds that once raccoons discover an easy food source, they keep coming back to it and this second morning proved that, but this time DH was up to put the dogs out and they were chased off before too much damage was done.
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Doreen's Colossus pitcher split down the middle to get to the decomposing insects
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What some of the plants looked like before being torn apart
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Minor Okee Giant in late may/early June
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I have had a good run with in-ground CP bog gardening for many years though with only occasional squirrel damage to VFTs, guess all good things come to an end eventually.
Doreen's Colossus pitcher split down the middle to get to the decomposing insects
What some of the plants looked like before being torn apart
Minor Okee Giant in late may/early June
I have had a good run with in-ground CP bog gardening for many years though with only occasional squirrel damage to VFTs, guess all good things come to an end eventually.