Post by AudacityOfTheMind on Mar 5, 2017 9:08:44 GMT -5
What Up People,
Hello there.....I finally signed up here after a few days of lurking as a guest lol....Since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with the natural world. Being close to my dad, which loved gardening, I took to gardening like riding a bicycle. Orchids are my first fascination, until I was introduced to carnivorous plants in 2009/2010. In the kingdom of carnivorous plants, there are many favorites of mine and one of them is the Sarracenia. I've already met several awesome peeps here that I've gotten plants from before I even signed up. I used to live in a second floor apartment in Chicago when a friend introduced me to Sarracenias and had a very small yard to grow them and it truly was a trial and lots and lots of errors perfecting the cultivation of this tall elegant and sculpture looking plants. At the time I've ordered so many Sarras from so many people here in the US and even a few times from Mike King in England which was expensive due to the shipping prices. In the small yard they flourished but really didn't color up as good since our building shaded my Sarracenias after only 4 hours of direct sun so I moved them from the small bog (tiny plastic fishpond) into pots and into a kiddie pool on the roof now with intense 8-9 hour direct sun and I was very happy and sad. I was happy cause my plants did color up this time but sad cause it was so hot that I had to water them everyday and carrying a five gallon jug up and down the wooden stairs in through a small hatch and that task ain't for the weak. Also during this time I discovered the blog site CPUK and and talked and learned but mostly talked and talked until I got burned out from anything that had to do with CPs that I stopped ordering plants and I stopped going on to CPUK and by the time I finally bought my own free standing house with a nice big, sunny and tree-less backyard in 2015, I only had less than a dozen Sarracenias left. So in spring 2016 is when that spark of interest came back, I got a hold of this guy named Mike Wang, not sure if you guys know him, and started pressuring him to send me some Kick Ass Sarracenias and he did. I'm like a junky and Mike meizzwang is like my dealer...Sarracenia dealer. So now I've got the FEVAH! and the only thing that's gonna stop it is MORE SARRAS!!!😊
Hello there.....I finally signed up here after a few days of lurking as a guest lol....Since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with the natural world. Being close to my dad, which loved gardening, I took to gardening like riding a bicycle. Orchids are my first fascination, until I was introduced to carnivorous plants in 2009/2010. In the kingdom of carnivorous plants, there are many favorites of mine and one of them is the Sarracenia. I've already met several awesome peeps here that I've gotten plants from before I even signed up. I used to live in a second floor apartment in Chicago when a friend introduced me to Sarracenias and had a very small yard to grow them and it truly was a trial and lots and lots of errors perfecting the cultivation of this tall elegant and sculpture looking plants. At the time I've ordered so many Sarras from so many people here in the US and even a few times from Mike King in England which was expensive due to the shipping prices. In the small yard they flourished but really didn't color up as good since our building shaded my Sarracenias after only 4 hours of direct sun so I moved them from the small bog (tiny plastic fishpond) into pots and into a kiddie pool on the roof now with intense 8-9 hour direct sun and I was very happy and sad. I was happy cause my plants did color up this time but sad cause it was so hot that I had to water them everyday and carrying a five gallon jug up and down the wooden stairs in through a small hatch and that task ain't for the weak. Also during this time I discovered the blog site CPUK and and talked and learned but mostly talked and talked until I got burned out from anything that had to do with CPs that I stopped ordering plants and I stopped going on to CPUK and by the time I finally bought my own free standing house with a nice big, sunny and tree-less backyard in 2015, I only had less than a dozen Sarracenias left. So in spring 2016 is when that spark of interest came back, I got a hold of this guy named Mike Wang, not sure if you guys know him, and started pressuring him to send me some Kick Ass Sarracenias and he did. I'm like a junky and Mike meizzwang is like my dealer...Sarracenia dealer. So now I've got the FEVAH! and the only thing that's gonna stop it is MORE SARRAS!!!😊