Sarracenia Scarlet Belle - Pitcher plant

Sarracenia Scarlet Belle is a vigorous hybrid cultivar with decorative, relatively small urns. It features a spreading habit, rounded urns, a hood-like cap, and a very bright colour at the top in red, veined with white. Growable outdoors, it is a hardy plant, thriving in wet, acidic, well-drained and poor soils. It enjoys sunlight, but not the most scorching rays, which can lead to dryness. Its leaves are very architrctural, trumpet-shaped. Its famous urns act as traps for flying insects. It thrives in a light soil mixture of peat and sand, watered only with rainwater. Under these conditions, it can remain in the garden all year round, at the edge of a pond, in wet ground, or in a pot. It can also be grown indoors, but as it is hardy down to at least -15°C, even -18°C, it benefits outdoors from an ideal dormancy period due to the winter cold. It withstands high temperatures as long as the soil remains moist.

Sarracenia belongs to the Sarraceniaceae family. It is a perennial evergreen plant native to the marshy areas of the eastern United States. Its trumpet-shaped leaves vary in colour and are adorned with veins in some species. Their shape and height also change depending on the species or cultivars. The plant produces urns in which insects are captured. They are attracted by the colour, shape, and nectar secreted by the plant at the entrance of the trap. Sarracenia Scarlet Belle is a hybrid cultivar derived from Sarracenia leucophylla and Sarracenia psittacina. It reaches a height of 35 to 40 cm and spreads out gently. The plant may eventually flower after a few years under good conditions, producing thick stems topped with large round buds that open into flowers resembling those of daffodils.

Sarracenia Scarlet Belle is an excellent plant for wet to marshy areas, easily settling at the edges of water bodies, sheltered from the wind, while taking into account its growing conditions: acidic, well-drained, poor soil and full sun. It also enjoys being in a pot on the terrace, provided it has suitable substrate that remains constantly moist and is watered only with rainwater. You can plant several varieties of different sizes and appearances.