Carnivorous Cape Sundew (Drosera Capensis) Plant 3 inch Pot

This sundew from Joel’s Carnivorous Plants arrived in great condition. The shipping was quick, and the plant looks healthy and is already thriving in its new spot. The quality of the plant is impressive, as it arrived with vibrant color and no signs of stress. It’s a unique addition to a plant collection, is a great value, and is hopefully going to help eat some of the fungus gnats from my other plants. It comes with a small net pot and moss for planting. You'll need to provide a bowl and some distilled water. The instructions included with the plant are very detailed and easy to follow. They emphasize important care points, like using only distilled or reverse osmosis water to keep the plant alive. This makes the plant much easier to care for, especially for someone new to carnivorous species. I'd definitely buy more from this store when I’m ready to expand my collection. Joel clearly cares about these plants and I'm happy to have found this store.

The plant arrived small and waterlogged in a plastic bag, which is not unusual for carnivorous plants shipped in transit. It came with thorough care instructions and all necessary planting materials, and the seller followed up during shipping to ensure proper retrieval and acclimation. After potting the plant using the provided sphagnum moss and mesh planter, I placed it in a shallow dish with distilled water and positioned it in bright window light. Within a few weeks, the plant acclimated well and began producing healthy new growth. Over the course of five months, it has grown substantially and consistently produces sticky, active leaves. It has proven very effective at capturing fungus gnats associated with nearby houseplants, and there has been a noticeable reduction in gnat activity in the surrounding area. The plant appears healthy and vigorous, with strong growth and active prey capture. Overall, I’m very satisfied with both the quality of the plant and the seller’s attention to proper carnivorous plant care. (Photo shown is after 5 months of growth.)

Exactly as described and nice and healthy. Seller included a nice, easy, descriptive care pamphlet and I've hope I've done my new sundew justice and potted her correctly. He supplied everything i needed to pot her up. Here's to hoping she goes to town on my fungus gnats after she recovers from her long journey😅. Thank you!

I ordered two of these plants, one for myself and one for my son. They are doing gangbusters, as in especially well! My son's shipped to Palm Springs this week, while I received mine in the PNW a week or two previously. I think my son ended up with 2 plants in the pot which he received! Please see photos of both of our Cape Sundew plants, thriving. They also came with a full page of instructions and contact information from Joel, so helpful, and with the potting material of sphagnum moss, with the net (openwork) plastic pot. I put mine into a glass self watering pot of glass, but the plant is safe within its recommended and provided plastic pot which it came with. Mine has already caught some stray gnats indoors (that came in with my recently moved in from outdoors patio container garden plants). So happy about that. RECOMMEND UPDATE Fri Nov 21 and Sat Nov 29, 2025: My sundew plant has two flower stem/stalks preparing to bloom... and is blooming by Dec 1, 2025!

This seller is by far the best carnivorous plant seller any one of you will ever come across. I was stunned when I opened the package and found my drosera flawless. It had seven "arms" all perfectly healthy when I opened the package. The next day it began to form dew on the plant, and the day after that I was able to feed it small bugs. This is the second time I had bought from Joel's Carnivorous Plants. The first one was a Dionaea and it was as healthy as the Drosera. Both of the plants had no black traps and were very mature and active. These plants are very affordable, very healthy, very hardy and overall the best purchase I have ever made on Amazon. Unlike many other sellers on Amazon, this seller has a picture of exactly what you are getting. The picture of the Drosera above is what you will get in the mail, and I cannot express how much of a great plant that is! Not only did the seller include the astonishing plant, but it also came with a pot and tons of sphagnum moss. I will begin by saying that the pots that they come with are the absolute best for growing any type of carnivorous plant. It is the perfect fit for the carnivore, and it has holes on the sides for GREAT water filtration. It is extremely hard to find pots like these anywhere else. They also sell the pots on Amazon too which is a great convenience. Now for the sphagnum peat moss, the package comes with MORE than enough moss for the plant which is a great convenience. The moss is also a VERY high quality type of soil that surpasses anything you can buy at any Lowe's or Home Depot. It is even better than most of the moss sold at other carnivorous plant websites. You can also buy the moss for extremely cheap prices on Joel's website. Anybody can tell that this seller is putting extreme measures in making sure that these plants are healthy. Along with all of these amazing bonuses to this affordable yet high quality Drosera, it came with an amazingly helpful and easy to follow care sheet for the plant. It went into great detail on how to cultivate and pot the plant so that I did not break a sweat to put the plant into the pot. They also gave me an e-mail address in case I had any questions. To summarize this buy I will say that I got an astounding plant (I literally gasped when I saw the plant)complete with a perfected pot and tons of extremely high quality sphagnum peat moss to pot the Drosera in. The potting process was a breeze because of the care sheet that went into great detail on how to pot and care for the plant all year long. And if all of this was not enough, I even got an e-mail making sure that I was satisfied with my purchase. I am, without a doubt, buying from this seller again. Joel's Carnivorous Plants is the God of Carnivorous Plants! Since my Drosera Capensis is doing spectacular, I put a picture of it on Amazon. It is with the other two pictures that are given.

Exciting new baby. Hoping this will help with any stray fungus gnats. She came wrapped up in moss and a small bag. Another bag of moss was in the package for her along with a small pot to put her in. Instructions were easy. I'm very happy and hopefully she thrives. Getting her in two days was also amazing. Thank you!