Best place to buy a venus fly trap?
 

Can anyone recommend an honest place online to get a healthy flytrap?

SandRgeckos.

Steve used to produce quite a few. I can't recall if that's the correct name of their company but they are/were active over at geckoforums. If that's not the correct name ask Marcia if she has contact info for Steve and Rose. I'm sure she has it.

Thanks a bunch. :thumbsup:

Steve, have you checked places like Walmart, Kmart etc. Seems to me that I see them around town every so often.

Blackjungle.com has a ton of carnivorous (sp) plants.

Yeah. Even tried Lowes and Home Depot. Nothing.

Thats weird, every time I got to the Home Depot here in NJ the have 3 shelves of venus fly traps! You could try: http://www.petflytrap.com/

carnivorousplants.org has seeds. It's a 30 dollar membership to get access to their seed bank but after that you get seeds packs for 3-6 dollars.

My membership expired but while I had it there were always plenty of droseras, sarracenias, and venus flytraps. Occasionally they'd have pinguicula and nepenthes available. They are wonderful and I've had a lot of seeds grow into beautiful plants from them.

They also have great forums and guides for growing carnivorous plants.

If you have a wholesale nursery lisc. and can meet the minimum order requirements (144 I think), plus shipping,
the company which produces the most Venus Fly Traps in the USA is Agristarts,
I have found that they thrive best when planted in true composted peat moss; not the dollar a bag stuff from the discount garden center labeled peat, but rather the good stuff. You may need to do a lot of searching of grower suppliers to find a good brand. I used to use European Peat for growing most carnivorous plants but with the rising costs of petroleum/shipping it is no longer cost effective.
davesgarden.com has a lot of good solid useful information for gardeners, from gardeners, the $5.00/yrly membership tends to weed out a lot of the rif-raf one may encounter on gardenweb.com.

Barry rice has an amazing FAQ at sarracenia.com and he goes into detail about how to grow them well.