these:

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Don't think any of the other fly eaters are native are they?

dunno but they're difficult to keep I found when my son had a passing fascination with em, pitchers and the fly traps

Why don't you grow some spiders instead? I'm sure I'll find some for you on the boat... Andy said...

no you feed the spiders up then give em to Ade for his carnivores

These are the native ones:

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(native to Europe anyway)

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(this one is a definite - even called anglica)

You're gonna give me nightmares you are Wards

They are the sundews. We also have butterworts:

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If I can get hold of legal plants and seeds of these then definitely going to have a boggy area for them to live in - have one up the plot and if/when I get a bigger garden, will have them at home too.

i'm too scared to look at your links

Is it not a bit strange - a confirmed vegetarian wanting to grow carnivorous plants

Ady have a word with Paul from the Sarracenia Collection, he will tell you what you can grow and supply you.

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my friend grows masses of carniverous plants in his garden (around the composter and wormery) and indoors. He's in Nottingham and they do fine

if you like I can get a list of those that thrive and where he gets them from?

Good link Dave
Native Drosera (Hardy Sundew)

Drosera rotundifolia
........................................................................................£4.50 Sold Out
Drosera intermedia
........................................................................................£4.50 Sold Out
Drosera anglica
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Drosera X hybrida (filiformis X intermedia)
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Drosera X beleziana (rotundifolia X intermedia)
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out

Native Pinguicula (Hardy Butterwort)

Pinguicula grandiflora
........................................................................................£4.50
Pinguicula vulgaris
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Pinguicula vallisneriifolia
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out

Utricularia (Bladderwort) (These aren't the native ones)

Utricularia alpina
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia bisquamata
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia bisquamata 'Bettys Bay'
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia livida
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia longifolia, Epiphytic.
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia sandersonii
........................................................................................£4.00 Limited stock
Utricularia sandersonii 'Blue Flower'
........................................................................................£5.00 Sold Out
Utricularia subulata
........................................................................................£4.00
Utricularia microcalyx
........................................................................................£5.00 Limited stock
Utricularia pentadactyla
........................................................................................£5.00 Limited stock

Could do with finding:
Lesser Bladderwort Utricularia minor n n
Intermediate Bladderwort Utricularia intermedia n n
Greater Bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris agg n n
for my plot pond.

If you have plenty of big spiders about the house you don't get silverfish. Sorted Our Russ used to love chasing spiders and eating them, apart from the hand sized ones which had even him backing off. They're flourishing here now. I have to be careful when I'm hoovering

Eeeeuwww We have lots of silverfish if they're what I call woodlice - little grey armour-plated beasties with lots of legs that scuttle along by the skirting boards. Patches eats any spiders stoopid eough to come in, so there's nothing to eat woodlice.

Silverfish:

They are very very small.

Aha - no that's not them - I think you know the ones I mean, you find em in dry leaves and compost heaps and under wood and pots. I don't hurt them, I just find one or two in the house every couple of days, which I catch and put outside again. Probably the same ones!

they're woodlice. Silverfish are titchy but quite fat bodies, they like warm places. I never get any here cos my spiders are huge I never saw any as big in our previous house and they run up the curtains and across the floor while you're watching telly. I have to keep my eye on em at all times so I can run off if they get too near. Even ouur Russ was a wuss in the face of some of the big uns

God's honest truth, I got goosebumps down my back just reading that I can't be in the same room as big, fast spiders with boots on.

my old man had to move one off the stairs that Russ had chewed. It was bloody huge so he got the dustpan and brush and as he swept it up it ran up his arm. He nearly had a heart attack

omg .....

Eeeeuuuwww Wards

We've had some pretty big spiders in the house since we moved - seems they're bigger in the country Our cats aren't any good at catching them in the house, although we have seen one of our cats bring one in that she'd caught outside

sorry to drag us back to the subject
but I asked my friend and he said

first, join the carnivorous plant society-

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They run a seedbank from which you get four packets in your first year free plus two more packets for a quid each.
As time goes on you can seed swap and so on.
Apparently they are super helpful and their newsletters etc are very informative too.
Gary gets nearly all his plants from them or from other members I think.

Secondly, he said that if you give me permission to pass your address to him, when he next splits his plants (which he has to do quite frequently cos they grow greatguns) he'll give you loads of plantlets to start you off
xxx

thanks for the new avatar by the way I think

Oooh, lovely - cheers Tara. Yes, you can pass my address on - and to any passing axe murderers whilst your at it. I might be able to use one in the near future.