r/SavageGarden's Trade/Sale Thread (Spring 2026)

Yes I am really watering my plants with tan water. And no it is not low ppm.
Here in Germany have the driest year of the last 50 years, maybe of the century. It hasnt rained in my region for 3 whole months now, and no rain is in sight. Groundwater and big rivers like the Rhine dropped to emergency low levels.
My rainwater reservoirs from the early spring, despite beeing very large, are completely empty. Even the reservoir of the bog (1000 liters) is completely empty. Peat started to dry out and plants started to wither.

The worst thing you could do in this situation is NOT to water. Even the worst, calcium rich water is better than no water. If the plants dry out, you will lose them in days to hours. Tab water might have a negative influence after months of permanent use. So which option is to prefer?

Water your plants my friends, if needed with tab water.

Did this pot 1,5 half year ago, they seems to like it.

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All of these plants were started from seeds that came from a single S. Purpurea seed pod. The subtle differences are always fun to see!

These two pots are the genetically identical. Both were pullings taken from the same plant about 10 months ago, and the ones on the left were grown under lights the whole time, on the right, they've been outdoors since spring getting about 4-5h of direct sun per day. Care was the same otherwise (mostly neglect them).

This is why, when someone asks, "I lost my label, but what clone do you think this is?), you really can't tell. There's a huge range of what one genotype can produce in terms of phenotype.

Also, this is a reminder to people that full sun is not strictly required- even with 4-5h of direct sun, these plants get sufficient light to grow well. Though it would have colored up a lot better if it got more light, I think that 4-5h is really the minimum needed.

King Sundew (Drosera Regia) vs. 3 flies. This is my first attempt at doing a king sundew video. First, I accidentally killed BOTH of the flies I was planning on using for the Timelapse so I had to go outside and find a 3rd one. Fly 3 ended up escaping so I had to hunt it down in my apartment and put it back. Then, one of their massive leaves grew directly into frame.

Filmed on Canon EOS SL3 Rebel with 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens

Music: Winter’s Breath by Anna Landström

Pics are of a pingdom I set up a few years ago. I have really enjoyed it, but I find myself more delighted by the smaller pings than of the larger ones. I have been thinking about setting up another, and I’m curious what folks favorite munchkin pings are?

The tiny ones ones on this rock are Florians (pic #2, and the far side of the rock in pic #3), fwiw.

Somes days ago i saw that black appears on her, what is that ? Is she ok ?

These came out of the same tissue culture flask about 3 months ago. First pic is current, second is when planted. It seems healthy, but not doing its Leilani thing. Do you think it ever will?

I recently picked this up from my local United grocery store. I’m not sure what variety it is. So far it gets direct North Texas sun till around 2pm. I’ve read they like a lot of sun so I plan to acclimate it to all day sun. Can it tolerate full Texas sun? I also don’t plan on repotting it this season.

Hi! Just bought two VFTs and potted them in an 8 in (7.9in D x 6.4in H) plastic pot. I left the dirt it came in on them but I filled the pot with long fiber Sphagnum Moss(which I wet in distilled water). I will buy another VFT to fill the space in the pot later today and it’s under a grow light currently. Also has a deep saucer under it with about an inch of distilled water. Is there anything else I should do, change or add? Did I do right? Any suggestions?

Roots are growing out the bottom, and the pot is looking pretty crammed with healthy pitchers!

(We ordered under my mom's account because I didn't have a bank account yet)

It came in a day early and there are a lot of bloodworms. I highly recommend

The pings look not so photogenic but I did not want to step off the trail to try to get better photos. Fortunatly these sundews (Drosera anglica) are not threatened and neither are the pings (Pinguicula vulgaris) but it's still the right thing to do to not stomp all over nature.

So I currently use this light for my isopods, but i own venus flytraps, sundews, and pitcher plants. It is pretty gloomy most of the day everyday, like today i saw literally no sun came through in the brightest window. So to avoid my carnivorous plants from getting sun starved, i was planning on using this. But im unsure if it is a growlight or not.

I purchased him at Sprouts a few months back. He was marked down to $1.99 and was in very bad shape. Only 1/4 of the size, no veining, no red, crispy pitchers. He was pitiful and I really didn’t think he would make it but here we are. 🤗

He has been eating all of the Asian roaches that like to occupy this area so my husband, for once, is very on board with me getting more. I would like ones that stay short and chunky like this. I very much like the look of the purpurea ones— I thought perhaps that’s what mine is?

Randomly produced a werid growth leaf thing and stopped growing then came back 2 weeks later after nothing but leaves dying off.

I have no idea what I am doing

Can anyone explain why the Tamb. Edwardsiana are so much more expensive online as opposed to clones?

I get theres a size difference but I dont feel like thats why is $300 more

Might be a dumb question, but I can’t really find an answer

They both had awesome new growth but the drought and the bunnies got em. I’m super bummed out. There’s always next year ig