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Dewy Pines
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We are now shipping Dewy Pines!
We send them in a 4" peat pot nestled inside a plastic pot. When you get it, remove the cup from the top and the
NZ sphagnum from around the base of the plant. Then gently slide the peat pot out of the plastic pot. If it
resists, you may carefully cut the plastic pot away with heavy kitchen shears or pruners. Plant the peat pot into a 12"
clay pot. You may cut a few slits in the peat pot to allow the roots an immediate way out, but the pot will break down quickly regardless.
Use a mix of equal parts perlite, pumice, washed horticultural sand, course vermiculite, and peat.
They come from Spain and Portugal and prefer a Mediterranean climate with mild wet Winters and hot dry Summers. Ours here at the nursery survive light frosts down to 25 degrees at night. Young plants
may sit in trays of water, but as they mature, less water is preferred, especially in the Summer. In most of California, they may be grown outdoors year-round.
Probably not a plant for beginners, but mature specimens are wonderful to behold. They emit a strange honey smell to draw in prey
and when grown outdoors are always encrusted with the black carcasses of foolish insects. Their flowers are large and yellow.
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