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Heatherly

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  1. Ha! I wish I'd thought of it! It's pretty clever! ;-)
  2. Tengel, there's nothing 'little' about your collection! ;-) It's fabulous! Thank you for sharing!
  3. Andy, great site! Fuchsias are one of my favorite plants, too.
  4. Thank you! 'Nice to meet you, too!
  5. I think I'll be bringing my plants in next weekend (I have sarracenia and vfts in the bog garden). This week has been cold enough for a mild frost, a hard frost and SNOW(!) this morning! Amar, your plants look fantastic and healthy!
  6. The color of your Purpurea is positively stunning, Germano! Thank you for sharing! S.Purpurea ssp. venosa “Red Ruffles”
  7. Max, stunning photos! Thank you for sharing!
  8. new acquisition from Nepenthesmatt, (the plants are lovely!) Drosera capensis:
  9. Do the rest of you LOVE the way kids react when you feed bugs to the VFTs? Anytime the nieces and nephews visit, they beg me to feed the flytraps. Hopefully these kids will develop a strong love for carnivorous plants - I need to will them to someone after I'm gone, because my squeamish sisters want nothing to do with my collection! ;-)
  10. *chuckle* I think it takes a rather unique sense of humor to appreciate something like this. It's quite nice to find others who find this sort of thing as funny as I do! ;-)
  11. Amazing pictures! Thank you for sharing!
  12. Oh, the things people do when they have an abundance of free time! ;-) Dead flies artwork
  13. Oh well - it sure it pretty, though!
  14. I own a little over 3 acres near Rochester and the whole back area is very wet (eventually I'd like to dig a pond). Moss grows rampantly back there, and until yesterday, I never thought much about it. I knew it was there, and I enjoyed it because it's quite nice to walk on in bare feet, but I never thought it might actually be sphagnum moss. Yesterday I hiked back there to snap a few pictures of mushrooms, and began to wonder what type of moss it was. I took a couple of pictures and hopped online to identify it - I'm hoping a couple of the moss experts out there might be able to help me out. Thanks so much!
  15. Scot, thank you so much for your advice! This is wonderful advice and greatly appreciated! If you want to experiment, you could leave a few plants out in the bog! if you have enough you want to risk.. mulch the bog heavily (like a foot of pine needles and/or leaves totally burying the bog..sides too) but since its only your first year, you probably wont want to risk any..but in a few years you will have a large enough collection that you wont mind! ;) I'm all about taking risks, and I would be very interested to see if any could survive. They grew so much this year (more than I expected them to!), so I think I'll leave a few of the sarracenia in the bog, mulch and burlap them as suggested, and hope for the best! I will let you know how they fare. Im considering building an outdoor bog next spring, and next winter I will probably leave about 10 VFTs and 10 random sarrs in the bog over the winter..see how they do. I'll be building my second bog garden next summer (already have the garden built - just need to line it and add the soil). You are absolutely welcome to come out and see what I've done! :-)
  16. I couldn't resist these guys. Here are my latest acquisitions: This is what my hair looks like in the morning:
  17. If it warms above freezing during the day, but below freezing at night, the constant freeze-thaw would be bad for the plants.. The porch faces south, and it does the constant freeze-thaw all winter. I'm thinking that the porch is out. The basement sounds more promising to me..is it heated? The basement is not heated. It's a steady, cool 50-ish degrees year 'round. It's a dug earth basement (original to the house, which was built 150 years ago), very dark, very damp. There's a furnace down there, but it's never used, because I had a pellet stove installed last year, so the basement temperature never fluctuates. So, cut the pitchers, rinse with rain water, sphagnum, bag 'em up and stuff 'em in the basement. Yes?
  18. I have both an unheated room (a porch) and a dank, 150-year-old basement. The porch freezes often, so I don't know if that would work. Thoughts?
  19. Hmmm. Now I'm torn.... If I bring them in, none of my windows get very much sun. Is that going to be a problem?
  20. Wow - you guys are fabulous! Thank you so much! :)
  21. Thank you, Mantrid! I will check these sites out! :-)
  22. Derek, thanks! Your identification took me to a website that had pictures of alow aristata (which has threads at the tips) and additional pictures of Haworthia pumila, which appears to look a bit more like what I have. Mantrid, correct! Now I just have to figure out which one! Thanks so much!
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