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Just a reminder that the San Francisco Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society is having their annual show and sale this weekend, August 16th at the Garden Center by Lake Merritt in Oakland. We are expecting one of the biggest turn outs of sellers in many years including some old favorites that...

I use window screen I wash sand and perlite with window screen. I lay the window screen in a large cement tub and then poor in sand or perlite. I then dump water over it and stir it around. Then I pick up the corners of the screen and make a sack out of it and lift. The water pours out and I...

Hey everyone, Not all BACPS members get the newsletter, and not all CP people in the Bay Area are members, so I thought I'd appeal to the group for some volunteers to help staff the booth at the SF Flower and Garden show. There were a lot of positions to fill as it is a 5 day show, and we got...

Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society at San Francisco Flower and Garden Show in "Sprouts" (The kids section) March 12th to 16th. The BACPS has an incredible opportunity to show well over 1,000 kids and many more adults what carnivorous plants are, how they work and how to grow them. It will...

I've seen several but a search only brought up this one. It is impressive, but doesn't show how superior the plants are. http://www.ladin.usp.br/carnivoras/Photos/Genera/Byblis/liniflora_IT.jpg

In Barry Rice's FAQ he mentions "Isao Takai of Japan has been doing amazing horticultural things with his B. filifolia" I saw some pictures a while back of their amazing plants and have long wondered why the seeds have not made it over here. Anyone have any idea if he sells seeds? Any idea...

Show and Sale Reminder! Hey everyone, Just a quick reminder that the BACPS Annual Plant Show and Sale is this Saturday (September 22, 2007) in San Francisco near Golden Gate Park.:banana2: It's going to be a lot of fun with quite a few new growers that are entering plants for the first...

It's going to be very interesting this year. Every year some great growers drop out and new ones come in. This year there are several new people I have heard about through the grape vine that are going to be there. I'm really looking forward to it!

BACPS Annual Show and Sale 2007 Sept. 22 Hey Nepenthes growers, I hope some of you can bring your incredible plants to the show this this year! We've had some good ones in the past and everyone loves them. Are there any ideas on how future shows could handle the fact that some of the plants are...

Reposts Thanks and sorry about that. I kept getting an error message and the posts didn't seem to be going up so I kept trying.

The annual show and sale of the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society will be held on Saturday, September 22, at St. Anne's Church just south of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. We're changing the venue this year to be close to CHOMP!, the six-month-long CP exhibit at the San Francisco...

Who is going to be there? I'm planning on being there. It should be a great presentation!:boogie:

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE! The next meeting of the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society is going to be held in San Francisco's Randall Museum June 23rd. Please go to the web site for details www.bacps.org Be sure to check again just before the meeting as there might be some changes! Ivan...

Hi all, Has anyone seen the display at the Chelsea Flower Show this year? I met Charlie Dimmock a little over a month ago and she was expecting a particularly good CP Display. Also, the BBC came out to California a little over a month ago with Charlie Dimmock and interviewed Harry, my daughter...

D. adelae - Hardier than I thought I have some D. adelae that I put outside in a very cold frame complete with tears in the fabric that survived our freezes out here. It is protected but it got down to 26 degrees here for several nights in a row. I was surprised. Stephen Davis www.eaglesroost.net