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Buying Venus Fly Trap in Limerick?

  • 26-08-2015 6:27pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,670 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    my kids keep going on and on about this, so I'm wondering if i can buy one in the Limerick area?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,819 ✭✭✭phill106


    osarusan wrote: »
    Hi all,

    my kids keep going on and on about this, so I'm wondering if i can buy one in the Limerick area?

    I got one in homebase a few years ago
    http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/venus-fly-trap---9cm-724035
    May still have them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭black & white


    Go and talk to the lads in the Garden Centre on Ellen Street, they will steer you in the right direction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Lobsterlady


    I've seen them both in Homebase and B&Q (by the indoor plants and orchids) over the years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Red King


    I saw them in that bric-a-brac shop on catherine street. Lucky Lane I think it is called?

    Those plants are hard to look after I've found.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Don't get drunk and try to feed it ham.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,670 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Thanks all, picked one up in Homebase for €5.50.

    Already fed it twice with the kids looking on happily.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    osarusan wrote: »
    Thanks all, picked one up in Homebase for €5.50.

    Already fed it twice with the kids looking on happily.

    With ham?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,670 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    With ham?
    Only at Christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    only use rainwater and stand the pot in a saucer which has rainwater in it as they are a boggy plant and cool conditions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,819 ✭✭✭phill106


    osarusan wrote: »
    Thanks all, picked one up in Homebase for €5.50.

    Already fed it twice with the kids

    Must be running short on kids by now!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    Don't use plant feed on them, they are perfectly happy kept damp and in a sunny window. As fun as it is to feed them, the plant uses a lot of energy everytime, most of their energy comes from photosynthesis and they live a lot longer if they get a fly intermittently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,670 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    phill106 wrote: »
    Must be running short on kids by now!


    It won't get fed for another 9 months.


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