Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:10:40 +0200 From: Pekka Ala-Siuru <pal@ele.vtt.fi> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4335$foo@default> Subject: CP's in Amsterdam
Hello all,
I visited this week Amsterdam(the Netherlands) and found very healthy
Nepenthes hybrids from the Flowermarket in Singel street. There was
also
Sarr. purpurea hybrids and naturally VFTs for sale. The Neps were
very cheap: a plant 20 cm high with nice 1 cm upto 8 cm high pitchers
was only 9.95 dutch guilders, that's about $5-6 ! Actually there was
two healthy plants in the pot!
I visited also Plantage Hortus (University of Amsterdam Botanical
Garden)and found their CP exhibit, which was not very exciting. The
plants (Sarracenia hybrids, common Drosera,vfts, some Heliamphora) were
set in a plantarium (plants in terrarium :) ) about 5 meters long and 1
meter high and wide. There was a kind of bog in the center, and the
plants were set aside that bog. Only few Drosera were in healthy
condition. Pity. In general the garden showed somewhat negligent care.. perhaps
in the case of poor resources.
Compared with The Princess Diana hothouse collection in the Kew Gardens
(which I visited in March)this was a total comedown. Why?
From what I saw in Kew and now in Amsterdam the two main
differences are:
1) Amount and nature of light
2) Humidity and air conditioning
In Plantage Hortus the amount of light was poor and poor air
conditioning (too closed plantarium)and the humidity was too high.
All these elements affect each other, and not all CPs like even
conditions. This was totally forgotten.
I saw no Nepenthes in the gardens.
best regards,
..Pekka
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