Date: Mon, 23 Nov 98 22:15 EST From: dave evans <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3700$foo@default> Subject: Re: Welcome Ian!
Dear Mark,
> Just for fun I'd like to get a thread going. This means all of us:
> What was your first memorable experience with CPs that led you
> onward into the hallowed halls of cultivating flora of a higher realm?
I have always grown plants. As far back as I can remember, I
was helping Mom tend the garden. Plants are a fasination for me
and this was true before I even saw Carnivous Plants.
I did kill all those VFT bought in tiny pots from Pathmark or
some other stores. Of course they gave terrible directions about
plant care. Infact, the labels used to tell you to feed them bits
of chicken or hamburger meat!!! Well, you see why they died. Not
to mention I thought VFT was tropical and never gave them enough
light! A VFT master-killer I must admit.
Later on (much later on), a friend from school (Tom Hayes) had
grown a really great collection of CP's and once I saw these plants
I was hooked!!!
I decided that if I was going to grow big plants like Sarracenia,
I would have to grow them in bogs, outdoors so they could get to
their full potential with little maintance. And it worked. Every
year I have hundreds of Sarracenia flowers in the spring and they
are a truely beautiful sight! Of course, VFT is out there too,
they like to eat Daddy-long-legs (a spider?) and flower every year too.
Providing plants like Nepenthes with conditions they enjoy and
letting them enough have enough room to grow big, continues to be
challenge for me. Probably will until I get a greenhouse. :)
Dave Evans
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