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Imagine a graveyard of rotten insect carcasues. The flesh has been consumed but the bones sit bare to rot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kind of creature do you picture that has consumed these insects? A species of bird? Lizard? Amphibian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about a plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carnivorous plants are a whole new kind of adventure for an amateur gardener. They are definitely not the kind of plant you decide to buy on a whim as you browse the nursery section of your Bunnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s what I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw her in the local Bunnings, sitting there among those ‘other’ type of plants, I was drawn. So I picked her up, and I knew full well what I would be getting into, I knew full well why I never bought one before, but holding her in that plant isle, there was no way I was putting her back. I thought there was a reason I found her there that day, as venus fly traps are never usually in my local Bunnings, it felt like she was there for me to find her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My introduction to the world of the carnivorous plant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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My initial interest in venus fly traps began in 2017 was when I was visiting ‘Down House’, the home of Charles Darwin in Kent, England. Darwin kept rows after row of plants and a maze of greenhouses, but nothing stood out to me more than the collection of venus fly traps among other carnivorous plants. I spent the most time in that particular greenhouse, fascinated that they eat bugs. And yes, I put my finger in one of the traps to see it close, and yes you’re not supposed to do that but I didn’t really know at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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