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It's my pleasure to announce that the NECPS will be hosting STEWART MCPHERSON as a guest speaker at our annual cookout! Stewart McPherson is a world-renowned geographer, explorer, conservationist, and authority on carnivorous plants who has studied at the University of Durham in England, the...

Ok, folks...I'm gonna do it. I'm going to divide my blue ribbon winner from last year's NECPS show, and take a few small to medium sized crowns. Up for auction is one of those crowns. The mother plant is flowering for the first time this year, so it's mature. I will divide at the end of the...

Hey guys, I got my amp spotted a while ago at the NECPS show. It has put on some size if I do say so myself. Is it normal for some pitchers to be dark red while others have almost no red? ??? Any way I am very happy with it! :-D before: now:

Hello all, The next NECPS meeting will be held on Saturday, November 8 at 12:30pm at the RWP Botanical Center, Providence, RI. There will be plants on display and a silent auction. The meeting program is: "Bog Cleaning." The bog has paid off in spades--the staff love it, visitors are amazed...

here is my new ampullaria spotted! :boogie: I got to chose it at the NECPS show! Here it is!

Hi, I just got some purpurea seeds (from Brownfield Maine) at NECPS show and some random seed from Pyro. (thanks!) I was wondering if any one had any advice on getting a high germination rate? I have the seeds in paper towel wet with ran water in a large plastic bag. i think I should take them...

I thought you all would enjoy some pics: This is a "Red Rosette Giant x Burgundy Trap Giant Upright" which got HUGE this summer. I got the parent plant several years ago from Phil Faulisi. A VFT Windowbox, or as Marv put it, a "No Fly Zone": The windowbox is filled with mostly long...

So, I go out to check on the plants....and what do I find? four or five of the best pitchers were ripped apart on one of my best neps THAT WAS TO BE IN THE NECPS SHOW AT THE END OF THE MONTH!!!!!! :censor: :cry: I was cursing like a sailor....trying to think WHO or WHAT could have done...

large (and beat up) raff. gigantea for trade at NECPS show I have a large N. rafflesiana gigantea that I really can't grow anymore. It's about two feet in diameter now, and starting to vine. In the past it has produced beautiful 8 inch pitchers of a nice purple color, but its leaves have been...

OK folks, it's nearing that time of year again - mark your calendars and start making your reservations for an absolutely fantastic time. The Sixth Annual New England Carnivorous Plant Society Show will be: September 27 - 28, 2008. The Botanical Center At Roger Williams Park Providence...

Nepenthusiast and I just came back from the NECPS bog walk in the Great Swamp, in Kingston, RI. We got to observe 4 carnivorous plant species in their natural habitat, as well as the inferior, marginally less interesting native orchid, which I can't remember the name of. D. intermedia D...

Alrighty... Up for auction is a set of three official 2008 NECPS 6th Annual Carnivorous Plant Show posters. Color copy/prints 11 x 14. Bidding starts at $6.00 and I will pay shipping if this goes above $25.00. I have recently finalized the seven overall designs and they were voted on last...

i finally figured out how to get pics from the new camera to the computer. the new camera is nice(dont know the model.. but its a kodak) but i miss my old one :( here you go! N. singalana. got this as a little cutting from the NECPS show from Dave Sacket. the leaves are really truncate...which...

Hello friends and fellow NECPS members, I am pleased to announce that the NECPS bay window display won several prestigious awards at the 137th New England Spring Flower Show, which are: 1. FIRST PLACE (blue ribbon) among bay window displays. 2. NATIONAL GARDEN CLUBS MEDAL FOR HORTICULTURE: An...

Hi everyone - For those of you who will be in the Northeast soon, The NECPS will have booths this year at The Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, The Connecticut Spring Flower and Garden Show, and we will have a display at the Boston Flower and Garden Show. The CT & RI Shows are THIS...

Hey everyone - The next New England Carnivorous Plant Society meeting will be held on Saturday, February 9 at 12:30pm at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The meeting program is: "The Cultivation of Heliamphora," presented by NECPS Treasurer, Dave Sackett...

Last summer one of my cephs (the one in my large outdoor bog multiplanting for those of you who saw it at the NECPS Show) flowered. I was lucky enough to collect some seeds. I sprinkled them on finely chopped damp LFS and popped them in the fridge back in September, removing them after 6...

got all of these from the NECPS show except for one which ive had longer....the raff. N. raffelsiana N. tentaculata(2 plants in one pot for the price of one plant! what a deal!) both of these pitchers were made under my care. right now its my favorite plant the same pitcher when it first...

of carnivorous plants! Hi everyone! Don't let my username fool you, I'm actually quite a nice guy. :grin: I have been an off/on grower since I was 8 years old. I've always been interested in CPs and captivated by their beauty. Even though I have been exposed to carnivorous plants at an...

At the NECPS show, Priscilla had a Miranda that stunk like the bottom of a dumpster.. John (the president) had her dump out the pitchers in the toilet so as to not drive away the public.:jester: Well she dumped em out and lo and behold.... this was in one of em! She keeps the plant at...