Post by billh on May 30, 2020 22:21:36 GMT -5
Hello Everyone!
This is really a fantastic forum, I’m so happy to have come across it. My name is Bill, I am a nursery professional and horticultural obsessive, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1996 I have been traveling annually to see (amongst other things) some of the world’s most amazing plants.
2019 took me to Madagascar, and this year I was planning to head to Sulawesi to look for that island’s interesting Nepenthes species. But of course Life as we knew it ground to a halt in March. My international travel plans are on hiatus, my passport weeps.
But I am not giving up hope that a domestic adventure might still be possible this summer. So, I am planning a long overdue 10 day “Sarracenia Safari” in America’s great Southeast. And that is why I have posted here this evening.
Cumulatively all the folks who post on this site represent the world’s greatest bank of knowledge of the genus. I’ve spent hours looking at your posts and pictures, your reports on visiting state preserves, privately held property, even roadside ditches.
So now, I am hoping I might tap this fountain of knowledge, and ask the members here to help me plan my itinerary to see as many Sarracenia species as possible. Please, if you have the time, suggest your favorite sites that I should try to visit. I will only have 10 days and want to limit this road trip to Georgia, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. I will consider forays into the Carolinas and Mississippi if the botanical splendor warrants.
Please note that as a visitor, Who’ll be alone in an economy rental car, I will be mainly interested in visiting easily accessible, public locations. Long dirt roads that ramble into the backcountry and private locations guarded by shotgun are perhaps saved for a later trip.
Suggestions as to where to eat- especially bbq - are also highly welcomed!
Thank you forum members, I hope many of you will chime in.
All the best,
Bill h
This is really a fantastic forum, I’m so happy to have come across it. My name is Bill, I am a nursery professional and horticultural obsessive, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1996 I have been traveling annually to see (amongst other things) some of the world’s most amazing plants.
2019 took me to Madagascar, and this year I was planning to head to Sulawesi to look for that island’s interesting Nepenthes species. But of course Life as we knew it ground to a halt in March. My international travel plans are on hiatus, my passport weeps.
But I am not giving up hope that a domestic adventure might still be possible this summer. So, I am planning a long overdue 10 day “Sarracenia Safari” in America’s great Southeast. And that is why I have posted here this evening.
Cumulatively all the folks who post on this site represent the world’s greatest bank of knowledge of the genus. I’ve spent hours looking at your posts and pictures, your reports on visiting state preserves, privately held property, even roadside ditches.
So now, I am hoping I might tap this fountain of knowledge, and ask the members here to help me plan my itinerary to see as many Sarracenia species as possible. Please, if you have the time, suggest your favorite sites that I should try to visit. I will only have 10 days and want to limit this road trip to Georgia, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. I will consider forays into the Carolinas and Mississippi if the botanical splendor warrants.
Please note that as a visitor, Who’ll be alone in an economy rental car, I will be mainly interested in visiting easily accessible, public locations. Long dirt roads that ramble into the backcountry and private locations guarded by shotgun are perhaps saved for a later trip.
Suggestions as to where to eat- especially bbq - are also highly welcomed!
Thank you forum members, I hope many of you will chime in.
All the best,
Bill h