Natural Gardening Pest Control Ideas!Natural Gardening flowers can be grown in a small backyard pond are many. However, if you are looking for one which is able to control your garden insects and plant pests; you will need to consider a carnivorous plant. Sarracenia leucophylla is an easy growing perennial plant that, can give you lovely dark red to copper brown coloured flowers. It is a very hardy water garden plant. It can stand as an evergreens most of the time in the year; except in the winter; some of the leaves would turn partially brown. This plant can be your strongest garden pond plant; as it can survived on a minus 20°C snowy; deep frozen water surface. In the Spring, it awaken much earlier than the rest of the water plants. It is specially attractive to all types of insects. This beautiful organic flowering plant has many small lemon green upright pitcher leaves. These pitchers begin with a short tubular entrance; they can attract the prey by their special odour; and the plant has a special organ for the capture and digest of animal prey.
You will discover the ants, the bees, the beetles, the green and blue bottle flies, the butterflies, the moths, the wasps, and the spiders are often caught during late summer to autumn season. During wet weather this insectivorous pitcher beauty would harvest rains with its hollow leaves; and the leaves could hold plenty of water. These clustered leaves can provide water for the birds in the dry days. A small mosquito might laid eggs in the pitchers. However, when the larvae grow to maturity would be frozen in ice during the freezing days. This plant was brought to the water since we built our first garden pond in May 2009. So, it is now almost three years old. A pair of smart common brown recluse spiders were found hiding in its flower petals since early summer this year. As usual, they built their webs between two objects; but I found them most interesting is, they were actively hunting their food in a dangerous environment. This natural gardening pest controller is totally care free; as long as you set her in a basket of sandy ground mix; and land her on the top level of your water pond; she will be ready to start her daily duty immediately. |
