New subscriber

Larry Hodgson (horticom@megatoon.com)
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:53:36 -0400

Hi! I'm a new subscriber to this list. I don't have that many carnivorous
plants: only those that I have been able to find locally, such as Dionea, a
few Drosera, an unnamed Pinguicula, etc. My pride and joy, though, is a
Cephalotis follicularis that I picked up last fall when I was visiting
Washington, D.C. and accidently ended up at the sales tent of an orchid
show at the National Arboretum. Some very nice person (if you are on this
list, thanks so much!) had brought in a few Cephalotis which the orchid
people seemed to entirely ignore. Well, I ignored the orchids and picked up
my treasured carnivore.

I don't grow any carnivorous plants outdoors, but hope to some day, when I
build my long-awaited water garden (it will have a bog garden next to it).
There are a few (very few) carnivorous plants that are hardy here (between
zone 3 and 4 according to the American system, 4 according to the Canadian
one), including, of course, Sarracenia purpurea, which grows like a weed in
the peat bogs all around here.

Besides my very few carnivores, I grow lots of other houseplants: aroids,
gesneriads, cacti, succulents, aquatics, etc., even a few orchids (which
for some reason I don't much like, even though everyone tells me I should).
I used to grow mostly under lights in my apartment, but three years ago we
finally became homeowners and I immediately put up a 10 by 18' attached
greenhouse (sort of a sunroom, since it is open to the house... in order to
make it easier for the insects to spread around, naturally). This allows me
to grow bigger plants (I used to stick to miniatures since they are much
easier to control under lights).

I'm looking forward to hearing from the others on this list.

Thanks!

Larry Hodgson
Sainte-Foy, Quebec