Pitcher Plants at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

One morning in May, I heading to Richmond, Virgnia to do some photography at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. I’d visited Lewis Ginter a few times before, but really had a chance to explore the gardens when the flowers were blooming. The first flowers I photographed were the peonies.

Then I started exploring. In the West Island Garden, I discovered an amazing variety of pitcher plants. I’d seen a few pitcher plants growing indoors at some of the local botanical gardens – this was the first time I’d found them growing outdoors. Several of the varieties of pitcher plants were growing near each other (and their identification signs). I’ve done my best to get the plants correctly identified. If I have them identified incorrectly, please let me know.

The first set I photographed were some Yellow Trumpet Pitcher Plants (sarracenia flava). I really like the patterns and colors of the group of pitcher plant.s

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