Regarding Utrics, I'm not too careful with these. Last year, I had some
Utricularia tricolor growing in pots of D. capillaris. I had plenty
of this Utric species growing indoors so I didn't bother trying to save
it during the winter and just buried the pots of Drosera, Utrics and all.
This was frozen solid during most of the winter. This past spring, I noticed
the U. tricolor survived and was coming up in the D. capillaris pots -
suprising considering this is a tropical species. Most of the Utrics are
grown in gallon plastic milk containers cut in half. There's an overhang
from the roof of a shed in the backyard. I have most of the Utrics underneath
this. Any other plants just wash away in heavy rain. The "soil" is just
old "used" soil from repotting another plant, or old orchid bark. Most
Utrics seem to like it. Seems that whenever I try U. calycifida outside, it
quickly dies off. I have these more tender species indoors growing in
the same container with a Nepenthes. Other species such as U. longifolia don't
like as wet a soil and I have these growing in shallow trays of
peat moss, with the trays tipped at an angle to drain off rainwater.
The Saint Louis Botanical Garden can be accessed by gopher now. Not much
on it as yet. The Australian Botanical Garden now has a list of all plants
it grows on its gopher. Nice Nepenthes collection. You can also see data
from herbarium sheets of various species.