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Hello there I am from Melbourne Australia and for some reason I have develop an obsessive fascination with these majestic plants.

I have built up quiet a collection so far I have had them all for about two months now the weather has been very hot and at times
very stormy I have not had a single plant die on me yet I water them almost every day for some strange reason the small sundews
appear to be growing like weeds but have not caught a single insect compared to the long leaf sundew which has caught heaps of
tiny insects.

I have noticed the tall pitcher plants seem to attract lots of cockroaches I must have at least ten dead cockroaches and the number of
victims keeps slowly climbing, I can tell when they have caught another cockroach because I can hear them scratching as they struggle to climb out against the downward pointing hairs, I guess it's better than having them crawling around the kitchen which really freak me out every time is see one crawling across the kitchen sink.

It's fun to look down the pitchers and watch them try to struggle and climb out knowing they will never ever escape.

Anyway here are the photo's of the collection I have so far.

And today we seem to have caught the very first wasp.

Those are some great looking pitcher plants! Thanks for sharing the photos and welcome to FlytrapCare

Hello, welcome some nice plants you have there. Heard that wasp will call for help and more will get trapped trying to help haha

Welcome to Flytrapcare! Those are lovely plants you have! You're lucky you're in the middle of summer right now. Us in the Northern hemisphere are dying for winter to be over!

where did you buy this one from?

Mufasa wrote:where did you buy this one from?

If I had to guess, that looks like the same kind of tag for the unnamed Nepenthes sold at various Bunnings Warehouse's (It's like a 'Lowes' without the diversity). That really annoys me how the Sarracenia and Nepenthes sold there are all species incognita. I want to know what I'm buying!

thecritta wrote:I guess it's better than having them crawling around the kitchen which really freak me out every time is see one crawling across the kitchen sink.

Haha yes the rental we moved into has an almost identical problem. Roaches have been living somewhere inside the (conveniently...) built-in dishwasher in the kitchen since before we got here. Their freakn' massive!

i was asking because i live in australia lol, i know what bunnings is, always kept an eye out for neps there, but never seen them, so i thought some other chain might be carrying it

Oh true! Sorry, I noticed your location wasn't listed so I figured odds were you're in any other country :p. As for the plant the only other place I've seen them in is Big W, assuming the store in question has an adjoining greenhouse section, which isn't all of them. I actually got my first many years ago at a fortnightly rural town market where I lived, and later (or earlier?) I got a Sarracenia Rubra (ssp. something) from another similar market. Although a very unreliable way to get the cp's you actually want, you'll find that town markets are a good way of getting them bigger and (usually) healthier locally. Amazingly, all the ones I've seen sold this way are properly species-tagged!

I actually went down to my local Bunnings today thinking about your post and had a look at the Nepenthes. The plants themselves do indeed appear to be a splitting image of the photo (I'm guessing Ventricosa?), though the tag art is a little different. I know I've certainly seen it before so my money's on Big W.

lol, funny story, i emailed a... somewhat local nursery (30 minutes away), asked if they sold any nepenthes, they said they had some "pitcher plants" for $10

went there to take a look, the $10's were sarracenia, and the nepenthes they had had triffid park labels and were priced at around $80+ (most expencive nep on triffid parks website is $30 from memory)

Jeeze that sounds a little steep for anything not in N. Rajah's class, but I can't really call myself an authority on Nepenthes pricing. Was this a small family-owned nursery or a commercial chain? I've only looked at Triffid's retail pricing, but surely this local store could offer a better deal if they're buying wholesale...

Masters is another store that stocks CPs. I'm pretty sure triffid park is the supplier to them.