Pruning and Cleaning up the Carnivorous Sarracenias. 4.8.22

The Sarracenias were looking  bedraggled.  According to the experts, they should be pruned by now.  Flower buds were starting to emerge so I was careful.

One before picture.  What a mess.  They were sitting in their basins at the edge of the vegetable garden.

After.  There are lots of flower buds.  I want to create a better place for them.  This is easy to access for filling the basins with rainwater.

Lots of flower buds.  One plant had a big slug among the leaves, and some slug damage to a few flower buds.  I mover her (or him) elsewhere and added slug bait.

It was interesting to see, these were teeming with spiders.  Since spiders are also carnivores, it was kind of a double whammy for any insect that happened to visit.  This one didn't have the most spiders but it was the one I remembered to video.