I’m so happy 
I don’t think I’ve blogged about Mildred much or at all, so let me explain: Mildred is a carnivorous plant, a Sarracenia to be exact, which is a type of pitcher plant. My mum bought her from Wyvale garden center at Ferndown about two weeks before Andy, Dan Monkey and I moved in together. She was £1 I think, and she looks something like this.
About 6 months ago she was getting very prolific, so I decided she needed a bigger pot. Only, after a while, she didn’t seem to like her new pot and her pitchers started dying, so on the advice of a friend I started top watering her, rather than bottom watering her, but her soil went all moldy and her pitchers started dying off in droves. I finally got around to looking at her just now, because I was afraid that she was completely dead. But she isn’t!
After taking all the dead pitches away and scarping away the moldy soil, I found that she’s sprouting again, but some of her roots aren’t are healthy as maybe they should be. So, in a couple of Saturday’s time I think I’m going to take her to my parent’s and find her a smaller pot and sort her out. Hopefully that will make her prolific and healthy again
☮&♥
Rainwater only for your pitcher plant. They hate the lime in our hard water.
Steve
Thanks for the advice
Unfortunatly I don’t really have access to a way of collecting rain water, so I filter the tap water instead.