glad to hear about your update Trap7. so you're growing your plants outdoors in a sunny location huh? great! that's the way they should be!(except the nepenthes) are you going to post new pics? i surely hope so. the way you describe their progress, makes some of us want to see the plants' new growth. new pics of them perhaps? i started a smaller terrarium(just because i had spare plants) i planted them in a 1 gallon fish bowl i just had it sitting on top of my "drawing table" there for a while, and i had spare plants in my sunny windowsill.. and though.. hmm.. maybe i should give it another try.. then.. i planted a venus' flytrap(despite of the failing attempt on growing one in a bigger terrrarium) i planted one in the fish bowl along with a drosera adelae.. drosera capensis, 2 pinguicula sethos, and 1 pinguicula moranensis. i will see what will happen within days, i am giving them artificial lighting 16 hours per day. the 14 watt lightbulb is 4 inches above plants. so they get real bright light. i will post the pic of the terrarium in 2 weeks of improvement. Trap7, yous hould take pics of your plant's improvement. your description of progress was really intriguing. :P i'm 20, there's no shame for guys to love plants. if you knew me in real person you would be like "dude, you're freaking odd" talk to you later , take care.

I think I have this in the rock garden and it's happy as can be with mostly indirect light (it gets about a half-hour of full sun each day) and no watering beyond rain. But it hasn't been there through the dry season yet, so I may water it, or I may lose it. But definitely an easy-care so far. If it helps, the rock garden has awful soil. Really rocky and sandy. The soil is why I planted stuff like this there. My understanding of plants like this is they like sand better, and I only have one spot that's sandy so that's where they all go. Maybe others can opine on soil/feed requirements? Susannah

Jaq....I'm glad my kids are adults. There are still problems with their spouses, their kids & their finances. Dealing with a headstrong wayward female teen...thats a really tough one. I wouldn't want to go thru that pain & frustation. Plan to be there and help her "pick up the pieces" when her world crashes around her and hope she learns from her mistakes. When I was 19 PG and "had to" get married, my mom (she's gone now almost 10 yrs and I miss her & her wisdom terribly) raked me over the coals for being so stupid and irresponsible and much more. I had the audacity to throw back to her that at least was better than her, at least I graduated from high school before getting PG (she was 15 when she "had" me). I thought I knew everything. I broke her heart and she only wanted better for me than she had. It took me less than a year to see how stupid I was. She never reminded my of my stupidity, just stepped in and helped me all she could. I've had company in small bunches almost all month and have been on my feet way too much. My bad foot is giving me problems. I called a couple week break from company. George was home last week and we bought a new boat Sat, then he left Sun. I spent much of Sun cleaning up the old boat to sell and Mon and Tues running around getting it in for consignment sale and getting the money for the new boat. I quit....I'm taking a COUPLE DAYS OFF and I am going to lay around with my leg up and read...sleep & eat junk food!

Congratulations! Whatever you're doing, keep on doing it Ruthie!!! Oh, I know what it is! It's all the bread-making, canning and preserving that you do. ;-)