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The costs of learning horticulture | Gardener State Bruce Crawford View Comments Based upon my experience, I suspect the average gardener kills a plant at least three times before understanding the proper conditions that lead to success. It is frustrating and discouraging, but simply one of the costs of learning horticulture. I mention this since to my dismay I recently killed three pitcher plants, botanically called sarracenia. These are fascinating plants found growing in peat bogs. To accommodate for the infertile soils of a bog, the plants digest insects. The leaves are rolled into tall tubes or pitchers with an overarching lid at the top and protease rich liquids at the bottom. The plants attract insects through nectaries along the upper rim of the pitcher, from which the insects slip and fall into the vessel. The overhanging lid hides the sun and disorients the insects who eventually tire, fall into the liquid and die. The enzymes partially dissolve ....