Growing Notes
Care notes, propagation walkthroughs, and practical advice from our greenhouse in Chandler, Arizona — written from the plants we actually grow.
How We Ship Live Plants Through an Arizona Summer
What happens between checkout and your doorstep: why we ship Monday to Wednesday, how the box is packed, when we hold for heat or cold, and what to do the...
How We Ship Live Plants Through an Arizona Summer
What happens between checkout and your doorstep: why we ship Monday to Wednesday, how the box is packed, when we hold for heat or cold, and what to do the...
Growing Carnivorous Plants in Arizona: Notes from a Chandler Greenhouse
Arizona is one of the harder places to keep a carnivorous plant alive, and one of the best places to grow the right ones. What the heat, the dry air...
Growing Carnivorous Plants in Arizona: Notes from a Chandler Greenhouse
Arizona is one of the harder places to keep a carnivorous plant alive, and one of the best places to grow the right ones. What the heat, the dry air...
Do Mexican Butterworts Need Dormancy? The Winter Rosette Explained
The short answer: no cold rest is required, but most will shift to a non-carnivorous winter rosette anyway. What triggers it, how to water through it, and which cultivars skip...
Do Mexican Butterworts Need Dormancy? The Winter Rosette Explained
The short answer: no cold rest is required, but most will shift to a non-carnivorous winter rosette anyway. What triggers it, how to water through it, and which cultivars skip...
Cape Sundew Care: How to Grow Drosera capensis
Cape sundews want the one thing butterworts do not: a permanently wet pot. Light, the tray method, soil, why yours may not be red, and what to expect year-round.
Cape Sundew Care: How to Grow Drosera capensis
Cape sundews want the one thing butterworts do not: a permanently wet pot. Light, the tray method, soil, why yours may not be red, and what to expect year-round.
How to Propagate Pinguicula from Leaf Pullings
One healthy butterwort can become several. When to take leaf pullings, how to set them, the three to six week rooting timeline, and the mistakes that make them fail.
How to Propagate Pinguicula from Leaf Pullings
One healthy butterwort can become several. When to take leaf pullings, how to set them, the three to six week rooting timeline, and the mistakes that make them fail.
How to Choose Your First Mexican Butterwort
What makes a Pinguicula beginner-friendly, which of our cultivars are easiest, and what to have ready before your first butterwort arrives.
How to Choose Your First Mexican Butterwort
What makes a Pinguicula beginner-friendly, which of our cultivars are easiest, and what to have ready before your first butterwort arrives.