Day 179: It began as a couple of innocent items on my shopping list for today. Preparatory to transplanting a couple of horse chestnut trees and a fig, I intended to purchase potting soil and bark mulch in order to do the job right, but that meant checking a couple of different garden centers for the best price. Strangely, by the time I was again bound homeward, my car was packed as full as it could be: five bags of mulch, two of soil, a pair of Blue Star juniper tams, an orange tuberous begonia, a one-gallon Clematis Vancouver Sea Breeze, and the greatest prize of all, Sarracenia x Carolina Yellow Jacket.
The Pitcher Plant is a new hybrid and according to the tag, "a hardy horticultural conversation piece," i.e., a companion for my Sarracenia rubra (which, incidentally, is developing two blossoms this year). It too will stand guard at my back door, protecting me from flies and mosquitoes and perhaps the occasional guest who arrives unannounced. Trespass not, lest ye be eaten!
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