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Nice Find At The Local Nursery

DrWurm

Californian in DC
Normally the Armstrong Garden Center near my house has a CP selection limited to VFTs, cape sundews, and S. purp ssp. venosa. Every once in a while, though, they actually have something decent. I've found S. swaniana and S. flava there before. Today I stopped in and they had this little gem in the back of the rack:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drwurm/3641584277/" title="The Death Box by DrWurm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/3641584277_ff16de2152.jpg" width="335" height="500" alt="The Death Box" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drwurm/3641585569/" title="Sarracenia Minor: The Hooded Pitcher Plant by DrWurm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/3641585569_4ea4a68160.jpg" width="388" height="500" alt="Sarracenia Minor: The Hooded Pitcher Plant" /></a>

Complete with bad advice as usual...
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drwurm/3642393176/" title="Bad Advice by DrWurm, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3400/3642393176_6df2f761ec.jpg" width="500" height="391" alt="Bad Advice" /></a>

Even though I'm giving all my sarracenia to a foster grower this fall, I couldn't let the little guy die in that place.

Jason
 
Sarracenia savior!

That brand seems to carry decent looking Sarracenia. I found a flava in one of those boxes.
 
Wow no dormancy needed? Where I can I get one of those...
 
The advice is better than other, the only thing bad is the humidty bottle terrarium thing
 
Wow no dormancy needed? Where I can I get one of those...

He said that about the octopus (capensis) and starfish (ping). He did not qualify that comment for the sarracenia.
 
Wow no dormancy needed? Where I can I get one of those...

That's special advice for octopus and starfish plants. (drosera and pinguicula)

Jason

EDIT: Brokken beat me to it
 
F R e N c H 3 z I think the label meant that about the octopus and starfish plants...lol
 
  • #10
Wow!!! that's pretty cool! nice find, all i ever find at a home depot around here are Half dead VFT's, Sick sarracenias (dana;s delight) and some really ugly nepenthes....

At least the montreal Botanical Garden carries some decent variety! (d. californica, heliamphora minor, a few sarracenia hybrids and cultivars, sundews....)
 
  • #11
Is there any more with minor? o.0 How much were they?
 
  • #12
That's the guy that registered S. x "cobra's nest". He used to do plastic bags with twist ties instead of the little box.
 
  • #13
Wow!!! that's pretty cool! nice find, all i ever find at a home depot around here are Half dead VFT's, Sick sarracenias (dana;s delight) and some really ugly nepenthes....

At least the montreal Botanical Garden carries some decent variety! (d. californica, heliamphora minor, a few sarracenia hybrids and cultivars, sundews....)

What kind of sarr hybrids and cultivars?
 
  • #14
They had a good selection of Sarracenia at OSH a few weeks ago including S. minor. About $3 cheaper than Armstrongs
 
  • #15
Nice find!

Funny, I picked up really good looking and rather large VFT today at a local garden center here in Jersey.
 
  • #16
What kind of sarr hybrids and cultivars?

Dana's Delight, Scarlet Belle/Wrigleyana, and Leucophylla 'Tarnok'

among sundews, there are D. aliciae, capensis, binata multifida, adelae...
 
  • #20
These are actually a knock-off of the Lowe's death cube.

A... knock off? Of a Deathcube?

*Head Explodes*

Edit: I do like how they actually list species names, though, that puts them higher up in my book. :)
 
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