Notes from the nursery
Projects, care sheets, and what's growing.
February 28, 2026 · Trapped Nursery
Epiphytic Bladderworts We Love
Utricularia asplundii, quelchii, and campbelliana — the orchid-like bladderworts from South American cloud forests and tepuis, and how we keep them.
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February 17, 2026 · Trapped Nursery
Cedar Bog Boxes and Spring Cleanup for Sarracenia
How we keep potted Sarracenia outdoors in cedar boxes lined with pond liner, and the spring bug treatment we tried this year.
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February 9, 2026 · Trapped Nursery
How We Repot and Divide Heliamphora
Our potting layers, the unpot, and how we pull a clump apart into divisions for shows — the written version of our two-part reel.
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July 22, 2025 · Trapped Nursery
Companion Plants for Your Bog
Orchids, wildflowers, and tepui oddities that grow alongside our carnivorous plants — and why we keep them.
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June 20, 2025 · Trapped Nursery
Bog Stomping the Florida Panhandle
Wild pitcher plants, flytraps, butterworts, and orchids — a week of firsts in the longleaf pine savannas of the Gulf Coast.
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August 27, 2024 · Trapped Nursery
Growing Venus Flytraps from Seed
Collecting seed, sowing it, and the year-and-a-half wait — plus the best part, picking which seedlings to keep.
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April 24, 2024 · Matthew Kammerer
Creating a Ping Rock
How to build and care for a Ping Rock — choosing the rock and the plants, planting, watering, and getting through winter.
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