{"id":950,"date":"2011-02-13T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2011-02-13T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:38:15","slug":"guns-and-the-fountain-of-sarrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/guns-and-the-fountain-of-sarrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns and the Fountain of Sarrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ok, for this post I have to stray *just a little* bit off the Sarracenia\/carnivore path.<\/em> <\/strong>Just as an FYI &#8212; I grow lots and lots of other *legal* things too here in my yard. Seriously. I&#8217;m a plant NUT, I grow all sorts of stuff, but it&#8217;s the carnivores and Sarracenia that I am overly obsessed with. Anyway, with all of this plant madness going on,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve recently been on the warpath of downsizing and simplifying some other things to make room for &#8230; EVEN MORE\u00a0 SARRACENIA!<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite plants, Gunnera, was running amok in my yard. So last week&#8230; I dug them all up. Freekin&#8217; all day project that was. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=gunnera\" target=\"_blank\">Gunnera is a monster<\/a>. Awesome huge plant.\u00a0 Awesome. Huge. Behemoth things.\u00a0 I had G. tinctoria in abundance here in my yard, BUT being that my yard is not big enough, and that I am not able to meet their water demands, I had to give most of the Guns away.\u00a0 Luckily for me, fellow blogger homie Jenn at <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlgarden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Girl Gardening<\/a> was able to provide a home for them. Y&#8217;all can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlgarden.com\/2011\/02\/2088\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Also another plant ended up with fellow bloggers Meg and Matti at <a href=\"http:\/\/faroutflora.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/24\/gunnera-goodness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Far Out Flora<\/a> earlier this year.\u00a0 I kept a couple small divisions back; however I know that these plants multiply very quickly and I feel as if I&#8217;m going to end up giving many away again soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5015\/5440341811_611bcc3a51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n[A couple G&#8217;s lookin&#8217; like dead bodies&#8230; strapped down and ready to roll.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5251\/5440344103_1a6222e978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>[Trunk full of Gunnera rhizomes]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5253\/5440936896_a4c995176a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/>[The Guns arriving at their new home]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;And over at the G&#8217;s new home, what&#8217;s really cool is Jenn&#8217;s *Fount o&#8217; Sarrs!* I think this is a pretty slick place to grow Sarrs. Mos&#8217; def.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still winter and the plants are still somewhat dormant, but you can see that one S. leucophylla or leucophylla hybrid on the lower right sending up some new growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5218\/5440338639_ee2743e80d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/>[The Fountain of Sarracenia]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5140\/5440336321_cb6bc934ce_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/>[Check out Sarracenia purpurea chillin&#8217; at the top]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5252\/5440938426_b0299ee564_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/>[Here&#8217;s some bottled up goodness from the fount o&#8217; Sarrs. :)]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>-Jenn, thanks for taking the babies in, I looking forward to see how they take over your yard! :)-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, for this post I have to stray *just a little* bit off the Sarracenia\/carnivore path. Just as an FYI &#8212; I grow lots and lots of other *legal* things too here in my yard. Seriously. I&#8217;m a plant NUT, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/guns-and-the-fountain-of-sarrs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238,237,235,130,236],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-dirty-girl-gardening","tag-foutain","tag-gunnera","tag-sarracenia","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}