QUOTE (Heike @ 25th June 2010 - 20:24 PM)

Hi All,
I've been reading this forum for a while, and decided it was time to introduce myself.
I've always been intrigued by carnivorous plants but until recently I assumed they are too difficult to keep alive, so I never owned any until last autumn when I bought a venus fly trap as an impuls buy at the local supermarket. To my surprise it actually survived the winter in my unheated flat (unlike my orchids) and it seems to be doing well, producing several new traps every week. That encouraged me to buy a few other "beginner" plants: a Nepenthes X Ventrosa, a Sarracenia Purpurea, and a Cephalotus (which isn't a beginner plant per se but which I couldn't resist anyway), and I've definitely caught the bug now (apologies for the bad pun).
Heike
Welcome to CPUK from another member from Oxfordshire