When I was a kid I remember my older brother had a Venus Flytrap plant that I thought was just about the coolest thing in the whole world. I loved to watch as he fed flies into the plant jaws with tweezers. It was beyond amazing to watch the jaws slowly shut as the fly squirmed within. Recently I thought about trying to grow one for my own kids and began doing some research on the subject. It is easy enough to grow these plants from seed or to obtain them fully grown from a nursery.
Sara Dorr of out sister site ParentDish recently wrote about a super cool kit to grow your own small jungle of carnivorous plants. This kit, from
Fat Brain Toys, is affordable at just under $30. Included is everything you and a small person need to assemble a terrarium filled with meat eating plants. The kit includes the above mentioned Venus Flytrap plus Cobra plants, Pitcher plants and Trumpet plants. If ordering it for the holidays you might want to put that order in ASAP since it has to sit in the refrigerator for about eight weeks, but it looks like it would be well worth the wait. I think my kids and will have great fun with ours.
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I have seen this kit at http://www.butterfly-gifts.com/venus-fly-trap.html and http://www.nature-gifts.com/venus-flytrap.html along with some other bug eating plant kits. They do take a while to germinate and then they are slow to grow, but I'm told that they are still a worthwhile project.
ReplyI received one as a gift last year. I followed the directions. Not a single seed germinated -- very disappointing.
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