Scott, Peter has moved his home greenhouse into the big greenhouse,
in the back-middle where he used to have a bunch of plants on racks.
Inside he's put all his lowland nepenthes and other warm-loving plants.
It's pretty nice. And now the area at the edge of the greenhouse which
used to have the hot-area is totally clear; soon to be filled. He's
hung up about a dozen or more potted D. binata multifidas overhead.
And finally, he's reroofed the big greenhouse with fiberglass panels.
The whole place seems a lot roomier and nicer now, and should be
great when spring comes.
Lots of his tuberous collection was up, and it looked very nice.
I hope my tubers look half as nice. I saw something which I'd
never heard about; the details of how new tubers form from undergound
stolons. One of the tuberosities had put out lateral stolons ABOVE
ground. It looked very alien.
I bought a couple of plants for my planned bog garden, and more
importantly, 2 years worth of back issues of CPN for $10.00 per
year. There is a box of unused back issues which Peter is selling
for CPN. I may buy more if I can afford it. I got the issue on
D. petiolaris complex, which has lots of good stuff, and an issue
about photographing your CP by a buy named Barry Meyers-Rice. I
noted also a Mr. Maharaj with a want ad, and a mention of this
group when it was only 3-4 people. Should I announce it at the
BACPS meeting next week?
Davin, I checked out Peters indoor bog garden. What he has is
a rectangular setup on a table, with about 8" high wooden edges,
plastic lined. In the back are some tall Sarracenia species,
and in the front are VFTs, and some low sarracenia. Several little
hillocks about 2-3" above the soil level were heavily planted with
rosetted drosera and pygmies. The media seemed to be peat/perlite,
with some live moss here and there. It looked nice. Tomorrow I
go shopping for some plastic tubs.
Robert