(lively music) >>There's a weird world of plants out there that may scare some people, but did you know that the United States, outside of our pitcher plants, the Venus flytrap is actually native to small pockets of North Carolina and South Carolina?

Venus flytrap is now on the endangered list because their ecosystems have been wiped out.

But you can find different cultivars in nurseries now, so it's worth taking a look.

Once you get one in, go ahead and repot it.

Here's a neat little trick.

This is the little tape that you use for drywall, and I use this to cover up the holes in the bottom of the pot so that the soil does not leak out the bottom.

The soil mix for this is one part to one part of peat and perlite.

They like a moist soil, but it still has to be free draining.

Now, I did have peat on hand, but coco coir could be used and it is a more sustainable resource.

So going to sift this perlite here, and I've already got the peat measured, so this is a half and half mix.

(perlite rattling) You can see, this is very dusty, but I will sift this behind me.

(perlite rattling) And if this bothers you, you can wear a mask.

Now, I've already got some that's already pre-mixed, so this is what you're looking for.

It's a nice fluffy mix that's going to hold a lot of water, but still it's free draining.

We'll add this to the pot here, and what I'm going to do is put it in, tamp it down a little.

I don't want the soil towards the top to be too tight.

And then I will continue filling this up.

Make the center hole here.

All right, let's get this guy out of the pot, and move this out of the way.

I'm trying not to trigger any of the traps, but as you can see, what they're normally packed in is just Sphagnum moss.

And as I'm doing this, I'm trying to be careful not to pull too many roots out.

And if you're into Bonsai, you will have different types of tweezers around.

I just want to clean up and remove some of the dead traps that's in here just to neaten the plant up.

So now we're starting to see where the roots are.

Their root system like to go straight down.

So as you're putting your plant into its new home, start off with a deeper hole just so you can get the roots down, and then we can tuck 'em in.

And it looks like I didn't trigger any of the open traps that was there, so that's good.

These plants actually are hardy to our zone.

Just because I just parted this up, I probably will let it over winter in the house under grow lights.

These plants do like to stay in water, so you can use a tray like I have here, and only use rainwater or distilled water.

So go ahead and try to grow the Venus flytrap.

It is a neat plant and you'll be helping to preserve a species.