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Homebase is selling Venus fly trap plants for £5 to help keep your home bug free

HOMEBASE is known for selling everything homeware-related and this time it's a range of Venus flytrap plants to keep your home bug-free.

The homeware store is popular for garden bits and home decor bobs - but it is also the place to buy plants.

 Get a cute plant for the house and keep those pesky flies away for just £5 thanks to Homebase
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Get a cute plant for the house and keep those pesky flies away for just £5 thanks to HomebaseCredit: Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group/Facebook

A plant-savvy shopper posted on the to share his green find.

The member even announced their delight at the "cool" plant - selling for just a fiver in Homebase.

It's a cheap price to pay to get rid of flies and other nuisance insects.

If you fancy nabbing one of these plants from Homebase, you might want to pop to your nearest store quickly as at that price, they might get snapped up fast.

To find your nearest branch, use the - you cannot buy the plant online.

For those of you who don't know, Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants which survives off a diet of insects - which they trap using the structure that lies within their leaves.

Its trapping structure is triggered by tiny hairs on its inner surface - perfect if you have a fly or bug problem in your house.

Venus flytraps need four things to survive: four hours' direct sunlight, water, nutrient-rich soil and a dormancy period (where they receive less water and more exposure to sunlight).

Homebase is selling their Venus flytrap plants in a ceramic pot - it is worth noting that clay pots are bad for the plant, as the minerals seep into the soil, harming the Venus flytrap.

Elsewhere on the money-saving Facebook group, members have posted about IKEA's Venus flytraps - available in store only - but they cost twice the price.

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