Astibe - This plant comes in 3 “sizes” which grow to 20", 30" and 40" in a variety of colors. You can make a whole garden just with this 1 flower! It looks best planted in groups and has clumps of fluffy flower spikes. Foxglove - This is a great plant for back row of garden as it can grow to 5 feet tall. It comes in a variety of colors and has large spikes filled with bell shaped flowers. This beautiful flower is highly toxic if ingested so be careful with it around animals and small children. Lily Of The valley - This wonderfully fragrant plant has dainty white bell shaped flowers. It is great for a ground cover or front of garden as it grows to only about 6" tall. Lousiana Iris - This beautiful velvety purple black flower produces 4" blooms that last well into June. Plant in groups for best effect. Grows about 2 feet tall.

Virginia Blue Bells - This medium sized plant has lavender bell shaped clusters. It grows to about 2 feet in height and is very hardy and easy to grow despite it’s fragile appearance.

Once leaf is set into soil, spray it with a sulfur-based fungicide. This will prevent fungal infections and mold. You can find fungicides at your local hardware store or nursery. Make sure you follow directions on bottle.

Next, place a clear plastic cup over leaf to keep humidity very high, and place pot in small amounts of standing water. Give your leaf lots of bright indirect light or grow it under 40W fluorescent tubes. You could also use compact fluorescent bulbs that are equivalent to 100W. Just avoid using incandescent bulbs. Keep light source approximately 6-8 inches above leaf.

Within 3 weeks, you will see tiny plantlets emerging from leaf. After a couple of months, these plantlets will develop enough of a root system so that you could transplant them into their own pots. To do this, carefully cut out plantlet from main leaf and transplant it into a small pot of soil.

Each Cape Sundew leaf can develop up to 10 additional sundews. Because you do not have to wait until plant flowers to propagate it, you can use this method any time of year.

Leaf cuttings work well on nearly all types of sundews, including North American varieties. But, we have seen it work best with Cape Sundews.

So, if you want to grow your own forest of sundews, try either of these two easy methods of propagation.

To learn more about growing Cape Sundews, visit http://www.cobraplant.com/drosera-capensis.html