It started out simply enough. I was browsing the net when up popped “petflytrap.com”, a website for the “Amazing Venus flytrap Store”….kinda’ cute little things and on May 15, 2003 three little Venus Fly Traps arrived. That was the beginning.
They had to have a home so I placed them on a twenty inch round table out back. Three days later they were frying in the hot South Florida sun so I built a ¾” PVC frame and covered it with a layer of window screen, then two layers, then three layers and they did fine and ate all manner of bugs.
I somehow heard of a grower in Miami and decided to drive down to see what a carnivorous plant farm looks like. I came home with four more carnivorous plants…one with fangs. Two weeks later I returned and got six more. There wasn’t enough room on the table so I built a small bench…of course I had to build a larger sun screen. With thirteen plants I decided…
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
–I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
I joined the PFT Forums. The plant total somehow got to twenty, the bench had to be expanded and the sun screen got larger. While buying pots at a local nursery I spotted a poor abused little Coccinea that was barely clinging to life…it is now three feet tall from the tip to the bottom of the lowest of thirty-seven pitchers. A friend liked mine, bought one but it did not do well on her north facing porch so she brought hers down for me to take care of…it is now two feet tall.
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
–I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
A total of thirty…not including at least a hundred seedlings…increased to thirty five this morning with the arrival of three more Drosera and two Pings. My Burmanii green is flowering and ready to produce seed. My refrigerator is full of sleeping CPs…no room for beer.
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
-I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
-I need help.
Christmas is near…anyone got any plants to buy, sell or trade?
They had to have a home so I placed them on a twenty inch round table out back. Three days later they were frying in the hot South Florida sun so I built a ¾” PVC frame and covered it with a layer of window screen, then two layers, then three layers and they did fine and ate all manner of bugs.
I somehow heard of a grower in Miami and decided to drive down to see what a carnivorous plant farm looks like. I came home with four more carnivorous plants…one with fangs. Two weeks later I returned and got six more. There wasn’t enough room on the table so I built a small bench…of course I had to build a larger sun screen. With thirteen plants I decided…
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
–I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
I joined the PFT Forums. The plant total somehow got to twenty, the bench had to be expanded and the sun screen got larger. While buying pots at a local nursery I spotted a poor abused little Coccinea that was barely clinging to life…it is now three feet tall from the tip to the bottom of the lowest of thirty-seven pitchers. A friend liked mine, bought one but it did not do well on her north facing porch so she brought hers down for me to take care of…it is now two feet tall.
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
–I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
A total of thirty…not including at least a hundred seedlings…increased to thirty five this morning with the arrival of three more Drosera and two Pings. My Burmanii green is flowering and ready to produce seed. My refrigerator is full of sleeping CPs…no room for beer.
-I do not need any more carnivorous plants.
-I do not have room for any more carnivorous plants.
-I need help.