Since we're all locked down here for Covid-19, I figured I'd make a short video to show my Pinguicula potting method.

It's mighty cold in New England, but I made this short video to show you how the bogs are looking this winter.

I hope everyone has been having a great time growing plants these past few months! I've been a bit quieter on here because I've been busy with so much else in life. That said, if you want to read more about carnivores, see some great photos, and get some seeds, I do have a special going on over at this link on my sales website.

Over the summer, I closed down my lowland tent and gave most of those plants to a friend in southern Florida.
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It's that time of year again! Time for the annual New England Carnivorous Plant Society show! This year, join us at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, September 9 and Sunday, September 10 from 10:00 A.M. to 5 P.M. (4 P.M. on Sunday). 

I'll be giving a talk at 11:00 AM on Saturday on Carnivorous Plants of New England. It should be a great talk. 

I - and many other members - will also have a number of plants for sale.

Whew, finally getting around to going through my photos from a few months ago and wanted to share some photos of Meadowview Biological Research Station. It's an awesome little place to visit.

As I stated in some of my earlier posts from May, I had an awesome trip to the Richmond area in April. It was a short trip and there were definitely more things I'd have liked to do than I actually got to do, but, nevertheless, I did get the opportunity to visit some cool sites.

Well guys, it's been a wet summer. Last year, the U.S. Drought Monitor had the bottom, east corner of our state in deep red, "extreme drought" conditions. Now, everything is all caught up! That sounds great, but remember, that doesn't mean we've had 100% of normal precipitation, we've had 100% + the percentage necessary to erase the drought. That's a lot of water.
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The most famous botanical gardens for carnivorous plants may be Atlanta Botanical Gardens, but I'm not sure many people know that Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Virginia has a fantastic display of Sarracenia, too. (Well, I say "too" but my last visit to ABG was a bit disappointing in that department).

Lewis Ginter is perhaps best known for its large conservatory. It's a prominent feature in promotional materials and wedding photos.

Hidden away in the countryside of Williamsburg, Virginia is a fantastic little nursery which sells a number of carnivores. (Sadly, I never knew it existed when I was in school in Williamsburg, but only just found out about it thanks to a Google search in preparation for a very short visit back there a couple weekends ago). My visit to Forest Lane Botanticals was too short, but I had limited time and a packed agenda.

Whew, it's been a while since I last posted! I'm working on uploading a video I made last month of my highland grow tent, as well as refining some posts of my recent trip down to Virginia to see Sarracenia flava in the wild. While I work on that, I wanted to share a David Attenborough narrated documentary which recently premiered on PBS - Plants Behaving Badly: Murder & Mayhem. It features many of our favorite plants and has some great shots of carnivores in the wild.

It's been a while since I've shared photos of my own plants. I've just been so caught up in finding new plants, that I haven't paid as much attention to my own collection recently in terms of talking about them, but I do have some neat updates.

Many of my highland Neps are growing quite well. My favorite, at this particular moment, is the Nepenthes vogelii at the top of this post. I'm sure that will change as I keep writing, but I've been wanting to see an upper N.
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