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Easy-To-Grow

Discover the ultimate starter plants that will ignite your gardening journey! These beginner-friendly beauties are perfect for unleashing your inner plant parent!

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Beautiful and deadly to bugs

Outdoor Plants

Transform your outdoor patio or garden into a stunning oasis with these gorgeous plants!

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Carnivorous Houseplants

Pinguicula

Carnivorous beauties to bring a thrilling twist to your indoor garden!

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Welcome to California Carnivores

Promoting conservation through cultivation since 1989!

For over 30 years, we have grown and sold the widest variety of carnivorous plants in the United States. Venus flytraps, American pitcher plants, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts, tropical pitcher plants and others - all commercially cultivated for either the curious beginner or the discriminating collector who wants the highest quality plants. We are closed to the public and our plants are only available online.

Best Selling Plants

Pinguicula x “Kaiberdon’t” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “Kaiberdon’t” BARE ROOT
Pinguicula x “Kaiberdon’t” BARE ROOT

Pinguicula x “Kaiberdon’t” BARE ROOT

$ 24.99

Nepenthes ventricosa “red” x lowii Potted
Nepenthes ventricosa “red” x lowii Potted
Nepenthes ventricosa “red” x lowii Potted

Nepenthes ventricosa “red” x lowii Potted

$ 24.99

Drosera capensis narrow sundew
Drosera capensis sundew
Drosera capensis Cape Sundew Narrow Leaf

Drosera capensis 'narrow leaf' Potted

$ 9.99

Drosera rosulata Potted
Drosera rosulata Potted
Drosera rosulata sundew

Drosera rosulata Potted

$ 24.99

carnivorous plant bog

3 Plant Beginner’s Bog Kit

$ 59.99

Sarracenia flava v. rubricorpora “Fire Top” Potted
Sarracenia flava v. rubricorpora “Fire Top” Potted
Sarracenia flava v. rubricorpora “Fire Top” Potted

Sarracenia flava v. rubricorpora “Fire Top” Potted

$ 59.99 From $ 44.99
Dionaea Sam Flytrap
Dionaea Sam Flytrap
Dionaea Sam Flytrap

Dionaea m. “Sam Flytrap” Potted

$ 29.99 $ 19.99
Sarracenia leucophylla "Splinter Hill, Baldwin Co, AL" Potted
Sarracenia leucophylla "Splinter Hill, Baldwin Co, AL" Potted
Sarracenia leucophylla "Splinter Hill, Baldwin Co, AL" Potted

Sarracenia leucophylla "Splinter Hill, Baldwin Co, AL" Potted

$ 99.99 From $ 74.99

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Pinguicula x “Kaiberdo” BARE ROOT

Pinguicula x “Kaiberdo” BARE ROOT

$ 24.99

Drosera capensis narrow sundew

Drosera capensis 'narrow leaf' Potted

$ 9.99

Nepenthes edwardsiana CalCarn Clone Potted

Nepenthes edwardsiana CalCarn Clone Potted

$ 424.99 $ 299.99

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The Savage Gardener

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Don't Tease My Traps

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The Bog Witch

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On Sale Plants

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Dionaea m. “Hennings Giant”

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15%

Nepenthes ( x trusmadiensis) x aristolochioides

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20%

Byblis gigantea “Cannington Vigorous Form, Pink Flower”

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FAQs

Drosera capensis is THE perfect beginner's plant! Cape sundews are handsome, dewy plants that are very easy to grow. They will catch gnats, fruit flies, and flies and can easily grow on a sunny kitchen windowsill.

While all carnivorous plants have a voracious appetite, Sarracenia are the most impressive! Their pitchers will fill with wasps, flies and beetles by the end of the summer.

Carnivorous plants require specialized soil that is free of nutrients and minerals. Depending on the species we use a different, custom blended mix. We have all of our soil recipes available in the FAQ!

Venus flytraps are best grown outdoors in most areas, preferring full sun, good airflow and all the hustle and bustle of the outdoors!

We ship all packages via USPS Priority Mail, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Please note that shipping times do not include processing time of 3 - 15 business days before your order leaves the nursery. Order processing accounts for your place in our order queue, and the time it takes our team to pull, clean, wrap, and pack your plants for shipment.