Around here, groceries sell very little plant equipment. Maybe some
bags of top soil or grass seed during the warm time of the year, but
that's about it. Even so-called garden centers don't have a very
extensive selection. These usually have <20% actually useful stuff, and
the rest is usually stuff like arts and craft items or plasic flamingos
or some such. But, I have just found a good local source for plant
saucers/trays. These are 11" square plastic trays, with planting
inserts, and a clear plastic dome for $1 each. Looks like 10" will be
the pot size of preference this year. They also have 19 gallon heavy
plastic storage containers for $5. These make great sarracenia growing
containers.
} You might try using replaceable poly, with plastic tape. I build
} a PVC greenhouse (the infamous $29.00 greenhouse) covered with this
} stuff and it did real good.
I'll probably get an outdoor greenhouse one of these days. I doubt if I
can economically heat an outdoor greenhouse covered in plastic sheeting. My
plants don't mind the crud on the old plastic covering and it's not in a
place where a lot of people would see it, so I don't have a real need
for replacing it at this time.
> I might be interested in splitting an order of falconeri, but
> I'm wondering what lanata is like.
There is a line-drawing by Allen Lowrie of D. lanata in a 1990 CPN. Leaves
are about the same length as D. petiolaris, but has thin petioles. Look like
maybe a giant D. pygmaea, or a D. anglica that somebody stomped flat.