Toilet bowl??? He must be confusing it with N. ampullaria ;-)
> BTW, do you know of the Dingly Fern Nursery? The owners sell Venus
> Fly traps in water gell, and they recently visited Peter D'Amato.
> I was trying to explain to Peter about the local places that sold
> Oz CP, but I couldn't remember the name. Which was the place that
> sold all kinds of neat stuff over the counter? How common are these
> places? Do you think this one store just had a local CP supplier,
> or did the whole chain carry CP?
Yes, Dingley Fern Market is (predictably) in Dingley and is only a few minutes
away from Collectors Corner at Gardenworld (which has a better collection of
CPs generally). Dingley sometimes has good plants for sale (eg. cheap slipper
orchids) but their range is fairly limited when it comes to CPs. CC (@ GW)
has a much larger range as well as selling other unusual plants, shells,
minerals, fossils, books, etc. etc. I tend to go to CC more than the fern
market. As far as I know, Dingley Fern Market is a one off (as is Collectors
Corner, probably) which seems to grow their own bulk quantities of common CPs.
However, both have recently gotten hold of some Heliamphora "plantlets" which
are being sold for the same price ($100 AUS) - the size seemed to vary a bit
though. This suggests that there is a local importer/supplier selling stock
to both stores (mainly CC though)... These are about the only nurseries
selling CPs at the moment (there used to be another place selling poor plants
but I haven't been there for quite a while). Gordon Cheers used to sell CPs
too, but mainly as mail-order (his "nursery" was only open by appointment).
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