vistary, pictures from webshots won't display properly here. You beat me to it! I just came back from the cool house. Here is more info:
I did not have to pay the $2 admission fee (didn't even know there was one), because of a very devious route I took.
Temperature is about 20C, humidity must be about 100%. Orchids and ferns dominate most of the coolhouse, but neps get some limelight as well.
There are about six/seven different nep species (I may be over-estimating due to upper pitchers), notable were rafflesiana, sanguinea and possibly macfarlanei. Couldn't really identify them accurately.
At the far side of the house is a mass of CPs "from all over the world" as the board proclaims. From vistary's shots, you can see there are many sarracenia, drosera (mostly capensis), darlingtonia, some cephalotus and heliamphora. Oddly, no VFTs.
While this is pretty amazing, there is a problem with the setup. All the "temperate" CPs above are growing in the same conditions, in the same medium (moss). As I recall, this is not really a good idea, and already the darlingtonia show signs of distress, and the droplets on the sundews were probably water rather than nectar (from all the misting). I believe that is also not good for the sundew.
This brings me to guqin's point about volunteering. I fully agree with his suggestion, for a number of reasons. One, I believe SBG has not fully grasped the potential of CPs. A lot of space is wasted on drab ferns and ficus, which could be better utilised growing colourful neps, which would really complement the surrounding orchids. Second, I'm sure SBG could use some help with CPs such as cephalotus and darlingtonia (and I'm sure we'd all love to help
). Third, I believe there is no institution in the region that has attempted a Nepenthes Garden, and with our local climate I see no reason why we cannot establish one to rival Frederick Meijer's and do justice to our local flora, as well as spreading knowledge and interest in this amazing genus.
And finally, after having recently volunteered at the zoo, I can safely say Singapore is in dire need of better volunteer programmes!
Colin