Specialty Gardens

The Dionaea muscipula, or Venus flytrap, is a very popular but a somewhat delicate carnivorous plant. Care for a Venus flytrap differs from care for many other potted plants. Not only do they...

Dionaea muscipula, better known as the Venus fly trap, is generally the first plant that comes to mind when you think of a carnivorous plant. Native to swampy areas in the Carolinas, the Venus fly...

Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants native to North and South Carolina. They obtain nutrients by trapping and digesting insects. These strange and beautiful plants are popular with collectors...

There's something kind of creepy, but cool, about a plant that eats meat. Images of fanged exotic plants, silently brooding in dark, warm areas, rooted in place, hungry and waiting for the next...

The Venus Flytrap is carnivorous plant that grows in North and South Carolina. The flytrap can gather nutrients from soil and air, but adds to these sources by "eating" insects as well. Though...

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a plant that is native to the wetlands of North and South Carolina. It is a carnivorous plant that digests small insects and absorbs nutrients from gases...

Dionaea muscipula, or the Venus flytrap, is a small carnivorous plant known for its ability to catch unsuspecting insects. While the Venus flytrap is native to the bogs of the coastal plains in...

While the Venus flytrap is only one of some 600 kinds, or species, of meat-eating plants, it's probably the one you've heard most about. Venus flytraps are very special plants, because they have...

The Venus flytrap is a fascinating plant that survives by eating bugs, frogs and worms in the wild. If you have this particular plant indoors, you need to take proper steps to care for it and keep...

Because of their carnivorous diet, Venus fly traps are a popular novelty plant. With a diet of mostly insects and spiders, they are not the world's only carnivorous plants, but they are also the...

The Dionaea muscipula, or Venus Fly Trap as it is known, is a carnivorous plant. To be classified as carnivorous, a plant must attract, capture and kill its prey. It must also be able to digest...

Unlike the vast majority of plants, Venus flytraps are carnivorous. They eat mostly insects and spiders. Like other plants, they get nutrients from soil and the air, but because they live in poor...

The Venus flytrap, despite its strange diet, can actually be a pleasure to grow. Beyond fulfilling some basic requirements--wet roots, high humidity, good sunlight and acidic soil--your plant can...

Owning a carnivorous plant is fun and the Venus flytrap is popular with kids and adults alike. Often, people become discouraged when their flytrap dies less than a month after they bring it home....