Fallen leaves tend to form a fairly impervious layer over your plants and, depending on the conditions, may smother them. Another grower who had a number of rare VFT cultivars lost all of them the year he decided to cover his bog w/ leaves.[b said:Quote[/b] ]If I didn't have the natural bog, I would just cover them with 1-2' of leaves, and then uncover in spring.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]In most natural bogs, Sarracenia are in the open so viturally no leaves are present for any sort of insulation, not even pine needles. I just let the snow insulate.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]First off they grow mixed in with grasses and sedges, and grass mats down just as much as leaves from trees.
The locations I have found Sarracenia purpurea growing have had a good amount of trees and shrubs near by or directly by them. Most of the time the trees are white pine or black spruce, but also swamp white oak, black maple (i think its black other wise its green) shrubs are the dogwoods, buckthorn, all of the bog berries.