Sarracenia better looking container(s) ideas please

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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I kind of lost interest and moved on, I tend to do that, I probably grew them for around 10 yrs or so and ended up taking all my plants to a nursery over near Wadhurst when he was starting up, probably around 2009.
    He let me swop them for other stuff he was growing.
     
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      @pete we also have leucophylla but this year while it sent up some amazing flowers with rich ruby colour the pitchers are struggling. We will cut off the flowers with the hope that the plants will then put their energy into pitchers which also are fabulous.
       
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        I went on to growing these for a while but the best ones need a fair bit of heat.
        Picture is from 2008.
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          @pete we also tried Nepenthes but as you said they need warmer conditions. However our son was given one 2 Christmases ago. We weren't sure what to say. But when we visited we did tell him that it was in the wrong place. He listened and moved it into their utility room and it is absolutely amazing. The new pitchers continue to develop and the whole plant looks brilliant. Good for them.
           
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            I found the one in my picture, which I think is the commonest one, N. alata, survives frost free conditions and likes spending summer outside.

            They are strange in the fact they have juvenile and adult growth, I seem to remember the juvenile growth is the most attractive.
            I hung one from an apple tree one summer and it went adult and pretty much turned into a climber but with very small pitchers.
             
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