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Hello everyone! What a weekend! The NECPS show was spectacular. We topped last years attendence by a mile...Last year we got 196 visitors...this year we hit 310!!
People brought the most amazing plants, and we had representatives from every genous....Even drosophyllum, genlesia and roridula...
OK, I'l start -
This is what I plan on bringing for display at the NECPS Show Sat Oct 9:
Grow Contest Plants, in 4 soil mixes
Venus Flytrap "Red Rosette Giant x Burgundy Trap Giant Upright"
Venus Flytrap Typical
Venus Flytrap "Royal Red"
Venus Flytrap "AKU Red Dragon"
Cephalotus...
Hey Everyone -
We had another NECPS first on Saturday; more plants for auction than for display. Two Tables crammed FULL of Silent Auction Loot!:
6 - Drosera intermedias
6 - Drosera anglicas
7 - Drosera binatas
a stunning 2 foot tall S. leucophylla (donated by Dr Matt Opel)
a stunning 2 foot...
hey guys can anyone tell me more about the NECPS show in Oct... i know they show bunches of CP's but do they have contests to win some or anything cool like that? fill me in, im a newbie at this stuff and i never knew this thing was in motion!
So there were some painters at the developement lately. They decided to throw their drop cloths right over my sars, which they could easily have moved. Broke a number of nice pitchers.
But that's not the really bad part....They knocked my N. ventricosa, which was going to go to the NECPS show...
NECPS homepage
I want to see EVERYONE there from the North East!!
Platakiss!
Tamlin!
Nep G!
EPlants!
Merlin!
Tony!
Hellz!
Now my memmory starts to fail....who are the other board members in the New England area....or even CLOSE to New England?
Tomorrow is the June meeting of NECPS, and it will be held at Black Jungle. We will also be taking a field trip to a floating peat bog with CPs and other cool stuff, and seeing the private collection of Black Jungle proprietors.
Check out the details on the society web page, and DON'T MISS...
I thought you guys would want to see a pic of a young Drosophyllum I had brought to last Saturday's NECPS meeting:
I have to thank Vertigo very much for the seeds I got late last summer!
The seed for this plant was lightly sanded with an emory board and placed on moistened...
Well, after a long vacation and shirking of duties, i'm back to the forums and back to school. I updated the NECPS page, and now ya'll can see what a great time we had in December. Check it out for pictures of Wild Bill's amazing Cephalotus ornament, too.
And in unrelated news, i was puzzled...
For anyone who can make it, the December NECPS meeting is on the new schedule, meeting Dec. 13th, at 12:30. Our meetings will now be held the 2nd Saturday of the month from now on.
We will be having the first annual CP Holiday Gift Swap where participants bring a wrapped CP related gift valued...
The 9th NECPS meeting took place on Saturday, and i just want to share some of the photos i took there.
D. stolonifera ssp rupicola, still in the rosette stage
H. minor
The auction table
And here's what i took away from the silent auction, for just $6! Yet another genus in my collection...
What did anyone score at the NECPS Show?
I picked up the following:
Nepenthes viellardi
Nepenthes Judith Finn
Nepenthes macfarlanei
Unfortunately, I was OUTBID on all of the plants Tony donated.
The show was really amazing. We'll have photos, more news about it in a few days.
WildBill
Hey everyone -
Is anyone interested in CP trades at the upcoming NECPS Show in Providence Oct 11?
I could be persuaded to part with any of the following, in person, at the show:
D. adelae, several
VFTs, young "Red Rosette Giant" x "Burgundy Trap Giant Upright"
A few others as well, PM for a...
Hi Everyone
If you are in the area, set aside the following date: Saturday, October 11, for The First Annual New England Carnivorous Plant Society Show!!! It will be at Roger Williams Park Greenhouse in Providence, Rhode Island. 11 am to 8pm, $3.00. And BE SURE TO STICK AROUND UNTIL IT GETS...
Hi everyone -
Check this out. I fed my "Red Rosette Giant x Burgundy Trap Giant Upright" a blood filled tick that fell off my Father In Law's German Shepard.
Go to the bottom of the page and click on the photo of the tick/dime.
NECPS Flytrap Photos
WildBill
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