Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:05:50 -0800 From: Wim Leys <leyswi@lin.vlaanderen.be> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1097$foo@default> Subject: Re: Dried Sarracenia arrangement
At my wedding, the tables were decorated with flower arangements into
which S. flava (and a few S. leucophylla) pitchers were used (I heard of
cases in which they caught an insect). My mother made them (her parents
had a flower shop, so she knows how to do it). She used the pitchers of
my young (3 year old seedling) plants; they are more elegant than
pitchers from adult plants.
I only cut off one or two pitchers from each plant. When, we came back
from our honeymoon, all the plants had grown new pitchers and no visible
harm was done.
I wanted to have a Nepenthes maxima pichter into the wedding boucquet
(how do you write this in English ?) of my wife, because I had seen a
picture of a composition in which it was used (very elegant !).
Unfortunately, the one who had these plants (hi Patrik), grew them in
conditions that are too ideal. Even his smallest pitchers were much too
big to be used. The flower store used a pitcher from a small Nepenthes
hybrid, but the form of the pitcher was not so good.
Wim, for all your bug-free festivals
-- Wim Leys, Belgium mailto:leyswi@lin.vlaanderen.be
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