One More Visit to the Little Bog of Horrors

When we visited the floating bog on Summer Lake in Skagit County a few weeks ago ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-bog-..., we had no intention of returning again this year. However, our good friend, Marti Anderson, expressed an interest in seeing the bog, and so we decided to go once more to show her this wonderful place, and as it turned out, picked a beautiful, sunny, autumn day. We spent nearly four hours there enjoying the sunshine, taking photos, and examining these remarkable plants.

This is the bog where someone has introduced a number of species of carnivorous plants, especially Pitcher Plants and Flytraps and where they have become established and flourished. The place is amazing and it was a lot of fun to show the place to Marti, who I think enjoyed the excursion but for the wet feet she got at the end with my wife's help. Marti's photostream is here: www.flickr.com/photos/meanderingwa/ and you can link to her blog from mine.

There are three species of Pitcher Plants growing in the bog. This is the White Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia leucophylla. It seems to be the least well established of thee three, since we counted only about a dozen pitchers, many of which were quite small. The other two, the Purple Pitcher Plant and the Yellow Pitcher Plant are very well established. More pictures of the lake, of its floating island and of these plants can be found on my blog: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-more-vi....