Well Many people that have emailed me have had 1 big issue with this plant dieing, that was FUNGUS and ROT. They all had them in terrariums, I did as well not to long ago as I was worried about how picky this plant is. I took a chance and they are growing perfectly under UTAH humidity. So you can easily harden them off and then get your nasty 8 legged friend :) Some of my Drosera are also having no dew, infact the one large Adelae now has no dew at all where the others are full, same with my Capensis plants, both broadleaf plants lost dew (one inside, one outside) but after a while (can be a few days or a week or two) they then start pumping out more dew. There are many things that can account for this, it could be too much/little sunlight, flooding roots of plants that dont like it or not watering enough, humidity as well. But there are also NO DEW STAGES these plants seem to go through, the Capensis infact can die down to its roots, you think its dead or dieing, but not long after that tons of leaves shoot out from the base. I feel that both our plants are just having a NO DEW PHASE at the moment,it is a good sign that it is making dew again. A happy Drosera makes dew, becuase yours is now creating it again shows that the plant is content with your growing conditions, so Id say just leave it to carry on growing. The choice to harden off is up to you, I always harden mine off. If you need any help with the hardening off process just email me at necro1234 at yahoo dot com or post here. Good luck!! Sheldon

Sarracenia Northwest, they just started selling them, i think. Those pitchers are freakin huge, man.

as others have said, my house suffers, too, because i want to be playing in the dirt. well, plus i wasn't ever the best housekeeper, but... any excuse will do. lol ! and, like some others, my love of gardening probably started with my grandma (mom's mom). she was amazing- had a veggie garden, fruit trees, lots of flowers and shrubs and didn't mind pesky grandkids messing in them. my granpap also liked to garden, but i think she was the prime gardener in that family. i fondly recall popping the seeds on her balsam, playing with johnny jump ups, picking her lily of the valley and being fascinated by the ants on her peonies. oh, and stuffing myself to bursting with prune plums. mmmm. i didn't really do any gardening then, but it fascinated me. she gave me my first plant, a green dracanae that i still have. at first about all i could keep alive were cactus and that dracanae. i steadily got more housplants as i killed less, and was lucky enough to live for 2 years in her house after i got married (after she was living with my folks). i appreciated all her work outside while i was in college firsthand, and with new eyes. unfortunately, the people who bought the house after she passed away and we moved tore out most of her life's work, much of which was very old and carefree. my dad was a big veggie gardener, and couldn't understand why none of us were much interested in helping. i tried to grow a few things at home- mostly flowers, which baffled him. then, as i got older and out of the house and 3 states away, veggie gardens were the one thing he and i could discuss at length on the phone. he was a quiet man, and it was about the only thing we discussed without him falling asleep on me. :) how i miss planning our gardens together- i still think of him as i get my new seed catalogs and plan out each year. i spent idyllic childhood days playing in the woods appreciating all the green stuff- ferns, trees, jewelweed, trilliums, sweet williams, violets, sedum, iris, daylilies, periwinkle and all sorts of treasures i found in our woods. it was an old homestead from 100 years before and in addition to the wildflowers, much had survived in the woods that they'd planted. my love of wildflowers and ephemerals doubtless springs from those halcyon days. we moved a bunch of houseplants south in '91 with us, and then at our second apartment, i began to do balcony gardening- i think that's when the bug bit hard. i was ecstatic to have my very own yard when we bought our house and immediately began messing in the dirt to plant things. we've been here since '93 and i have a nice sized garden in the front & the side. now my big plans are for our shady back yard. not real sure what i'll do when i fill it up, but i think that'll take me a long time. my dad's sis played a big role, too. as a preteen i spent one summer with them because of my mom's health issues and i learned much about edible landscaping. i've always loved fruit, and it seemed that they had yummy stuff tucked in every corner of their yard. when i began to plan my own garden many years later, it was the memory of her garden that inspired much of mine. she was touched and surprised when i told her that. i'd be remiss if i didn't mention the 4th big influence and that was lady i met while volunteering at mordecai shortly after we moved here. she was in her 70's and had such spunk! she has an amazing garden at her husband's homeplace in louisburg with oodles of old roses, daylilies and iris, among other gems. she was a huge contributor to my garden in its infancy, and my knowledge bank. i consider her my mentor, and my adopted grandma, since one is gone and the other is far away. i love passing along her plants, and helping to spread her influence far and wide. garden webbers have played no small role the last few years, too, and i look forward to learning much more from you guys and making many, many new friends! i feel like my love of gardening came from so many sources and feel very lucky to have had all of them in my life. i consider it a duty to pass along plants to anyone starting up. it's the very least i can do in memory and gratitude to those who helped me so and fed such a great obsession.

Are we talking lawn weeds or big ole' pasture weeds? I happened to see recently on Oklahoma Gardening (OETA) that there are several weeds in OK that can cause an allergic response in a reaction to sunlight. The way I understood it, was the plant rubbing your skin PLUS shining sunlight on it (like if you were out weeding in the daytime) could cause an allergic reaction. I'm sorry I don't remember the weeds, they were all in OK, though, and it was the episode that aired maybe 3 weeks ago. Wait, I just went and looked it up, it's on their YouTube channel. I think he mentions the allergic reaction a few minutes in. Let me try to link. PS - I am allergic to wasps (I found out) and when I got my first sting, it looked like a normal sting/welt at first, but by the next morning had gotten bigger and bigger, red and hot to the touch. 24 hrs later, it was growing by leaps and bounds (I marked the edge with a pen and watched it), so the next day I went in and had to get the steroid shot. It didn't blister, though, it just was a welt that eventually got so big you couldn't really tell there was a welt at all, just a big red hot patch encircling my whole upper arm. Here is a link that might be useful: Broadleaf segment on OKG