So many warm welcome backs and plant offers too! Thanks so much guys, you warm my heart.
As to the plant offers, I am only after Utricularia, and nothing rare or difficult as I am not up to the challenge. I've already had more offers than i could accept, and I don't even have trade material. Nice folk here!!!
As to being an expert, pooh on that. I have no degree, have not done herbarium studies and have grown only a few isolated examples of vast populations. I have a good eye for Drosera, but where ranges overlap and hybridization is unrestricted, there are no criteria stable enough to make a determination based on form recognition. I have abandoned all scientific interest in the genus, and care now only for their beauty. My growing advise is generally sound and I have grown (and killed) many species, but all my advise is best guess. Might work for me and not for you. Don't depend on the experts...EXPERIMENT and adopt what works. So many fictions exist because some expert said so...e.g. growing Brasillian Drosera in terraria. (D. montana tomentosa was one of the toughest, drygrowing Drosera in my collection.) Petiolaris can't be propagated by leaf cuttings (So how come Christian Dietz and Pinguiculaman do so?) Then there's the expert advise in when to divide plants....winter for Sarracenia etc etc when in fact the optimal time is when the plant is in optimal growth. So I am not an expert. I don't want my advise to carry more weight than it deserves, but I do pln on giving it for what it's worth. The real experts have letters after their names anyhoo.
It occurs to me I forgot to thank Pyro for his weekly handwritten (imagine that) weekly letters sent. Thanls man, it's good to know you're not forgotten! Friends I got!
To all my old friends and new friends, my deepest thanks for your welcome. My body is sick, but my soul is happy (smiley).