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I'd like to try to tag along. I'll know this week what my summer schedule is and whether I'll be working from a remote research station come June 25 or still in south coastal BC. The catch is I don't have 4WD.

It's always miserably humid around Vancouver. CPs love that. It's June and we still haven't had any sunshine or warmth though. I waited until MAY to move my VFTs and Sarrs outside and I've lost all my tall pitchers to windstorms.

I love my rubra's pitchers this year.

I can't imagine growing CPs in the Plains! I attribute most of my success to the extremely mild climate of the PNW. I bet I'd fail completely in Saskatchewan.

I've had good experiences with this supplier's hydrophytes in general. I have a scarlet belle of theirs that is years old and would survive a nuclear blast, I swear.

So the S. Velvets look pretty rough. The maroons and Purp. Venosas look great tho. There's a couple species of sundews in the indoor plant section too. I think they're sold out of VFTs and Nepenthes.

Art's Nursery in Port Kells has a few species of Sarracenia. Nothing fancy but lots of plants and they look to be in great condition.

I bought a Gaya and a Viking. :p

I had a "duh" moment. I make loads of bath and candle stuff. If anywhere in the lower mainland sells neem oil it's going to be a bath and body materials supplier. I visited mine, which is near Willowbrook. They have LOADS of the stuff. I bought 125mL for $5 but could have bought 4L for $95. :D...

Oh, lovely!

Perfect! I can't wait to see those things start dying off.

What's the recommended dilution for neem oil in water when using it to treat CPs?

Once the aphids are dead, I wonder if neem oil will be good for my hair. :D

Does anyone from in/around Vancouver know where a good place to purchase neem oil is? My Venus flytraps are covered in aphids. I'm having no problem finding prepared insecticides with neem oil as an ingredient. I have no idea how my plants would respond to all the other ingredients though. I...

Lots of S. alatas at Art's Nursery in Surrey today, conventional and a red lid variety. :)

Gorgeous purp!

I spent a number of months on a project in Pinecone Burke Provincial Park last year. So beautiful!

Looks like a Canadian Tire shipment of CPs came from the same supplier as the ones I found at Potters but even cheaper. There's my thunder stolen! The Potters shipment also contained a bunch of tiny Sarracenias but, as was the case with the Nepenthes, I have no idea what species were there. All...

I think it may be a clubmoss. It's weird.

I found these little guys at the nursery yesterday. They were just labelled "pitcher plant". I've never been able to keep a nepenthes this small (5 cm) alive but they were $7 a piece. If I can keep them alive I'll gift one to my mom next year. If they die, I'm only $14 out. So what do you...