Re: Darlingtonia

Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 5 Apr 1993 08:28:17 -0700 (PDT)

>
> John Taylor questioned their origin:
> >That seems very cheap compared to the prices down here (perhaps *too*
> >cheap and given the plastic-bag potting situation, I hope that they were
> >greenhouse grown).
>
> Unless the things grow like weeds in their native
> California, then this sounds as though someone has been out digging
> them up, which I assume is illegal.
>
Well, actually, since it is pretty easy to keep them cool in the Pacific
Northwest, the things *do* grow like weeds here! Not that I am able to
say where they came from but at our last CP club meeting in Seattle, one
member brought in about 10 5-inch pots of Darlingtonia he had started from
offsets that spring (the meeting was in July). They already had lots of
small plants started from runners. He had so many that he was just trying
to unload them for free! (Mine is sending up a bloom stalk this spring).