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ISSN 1033-6966 VICTORIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOC IETY Inc. December 2004 No. 74 Sarracenia flava var rugelii Utricularia reniformis Nepenthes ‘Red Leopard’ D. (falconeri x lanata) x (darwinensis x falconeri) Heliamphora nutans Byblis gigantea Drosera dichrosepala VICTORIAN CARNIVOROUS VICTORIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOC IETY Inc. PLANT SOC IETY Inc. Annual Subscriptions Issue No. 74 December 2004 Australian membership $20.00 Office Bearers: July 2004 – June 2005 Overseas membership $20.00 Payment from overseas must be in Australian dollars. President Paul Edwards All cheques or money orders should be made payable to the Victorian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc (VCPS). Vice President Stephen Fretwell Payment by credit card is NOT available at the time of this journal issue. General Secretary Gordon Ohlenrott Correspondence Minutes Secretary Sean Spence Please forward all correspondence regarding subscription, change of address, Other Publications Gordon Ohlenrott articles for the journal and back issues to: The Secretary VCPS Journal Editor Stephen Fretwell P.O. Box 201 SOUTH YARRA 3141. Assistant Journal Editor David Bond AUSTRALIA Internet Co-ordinator Paul Edwards Journal articles, in MS-Word, ready for publication, may be Emailed to the Editor or Secretary. Treasurer Ken Neal Librarian Andrew Gibbons Meetings Seedbank Administrator George Caspar Most VCPS meetings are held in the hall at the rear of the Pilgrim Uniting Church on the corner of Bayview Road and Montague Street, Yarraville – Melway map reference Hardware Co-ordinator Andre Cleghorn 41K7. These meetings are on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 8 PM. However, some meetings may be at the home of members during a weekend. Show Co-ordinator Peter Anderson Details of meeting dates and topics are listed in each journal. Field Trips Organiser George Caspar If unsure of the location or date of any meeting, please ring a committee person for details. Public Officer Alexander Whitehouse The VCPS Annual General Meeting, usually held at Yarraville in June, provides substantial benefits for each and every member able to attend. Sales Administrator Ron Abernethy 2 – VCPS VCPS – 3 Contents Presidents Report elcome to another ‘new look’ award. Watch out everyone, this young edition of the VCPS journal. I chap means business and in a couple of W think you’ll all agree that our years we may have a lot of trouble getting new Journal Editor, Steve Fretwell, did a that Grand Champion trophy off him! fantastic job on the last journal. This edition is a little late out, however in December To our interstate visitors who travelled FRONT COVER: Steve and Nicole were married and had down from Sydney. Well done, guys for a their honeymoon in Queensland, so I sup - fantastic example of what commitment is Drosera dichrosepala , native pose this excuse can be accepted!!!! all about! to Western Australia. Congratulations Steve and Nicole! Thought Photographed by Sean you could have worked on the journal on And of course all the other members Spence your honeymoon, though!! ;-) who displayed plants. Great job, all! I’m BACK COVER: sure the oohhs and aahhs of the general As most of you will be aware, our annual public made it all worthwhile. Clockwise from top left: show was held in early December. It was Cephalotus follicularis Photo: Sean Spence I Sarracenia flava var. great to see all the hard work that members Gardening Australia showed up to do a rugellii. have put in come to fruition, as there were magazine spread on the plants. This was Anglesea adventure 6 I Utricularia reniformis , many, many truly excellent plants on dis - fantastic! They plan to run two features – grown by Paul Edwards. play. If you haven’t already, check out a one in the near future and another in the Photographed by Sean range of photos from the show on our web edition before the 2005 Annual Show! I’ll VCPS 2004 Annual show 10 Spence. site www.vcps.au.com. Click on the link on keep you posted with more details when Show judging results 11 I Drosera (falconeri x the main page. It might be pertinent to also they are to hand. lanata) x (darwinensis x click on the copyright information page (the falconeri ) Grown by Sean link is also on the main page) with regards On a sadder note, it is with regret that Giant Drosera whittakeri ssp. aberrans Spence. to copying/downloading pics. I advise of the passing of a dedicated and from the Pyrete Ranges State Forest 14 I Byblis gigantea , grown by passionate grower of CPs – Mike Paul Edwards. Congratulations are due to many. Of McCarthy. He passed away as a result of a French Island 16 I Heliamphora nutans course, Stuart McIlroy for wrestling the long illness shortly after the show. It was Grand Champion of the Grand Champion trophy out of my grasp! great to see him there, and on behalf of the C.P. on your T.V 17 VCPS 2004 show. Grown He really deserved it with a fantastic Society I offer condolences to family and by Stuart McIlroy. example of a Heliamphora nutans giant. Also friends. Vale Michael 18 I Nepenthes ‘Red Leopard’, to the generous help of Triffid Park – not Grown by Stuart McIlroy. only for their help at the show, but for their Anyway, enough of me waffling on. Get Crossword puzzle solution 20 Photographed by Sean continued support throughout the year. stuck into the summer edition of the jour - Spence. Thanks Colin, Tina and Donna! Thanks also nal and I hope it inspires you to grow even Seedbank 21 go to Collectors Corner for kindly providing bigger and better (if that’s possible!) Journal Design: the venue once again, free of charge! The articles that are found within are copyright but can be copied Stephen Fretwell freely if the author and source are acknowledged. The views are of the One of our younger growers, Aaron Cheers authors and are open to review and debate. Please send all material to Printed by: Howlett took out the novice growers Paul Edwards the editor for consideration to be included in our quarterly journal. Snap Printing (Box Hill) 4 – VCPS VCPS – 5 been through the area causing the track to be a bit muddy but as my car is 'all wheel drive' this was not to bad. Sean told us that there were a couple of really bad ruts at the bottom of the track and that it may be difficult to get the car through, so we headed down to check them out. As we descended towards the swamp, the track suddenly started to get quite muddy and slip - pery, we all decided that we should not go any further. I started to look for a place where I could turn around but quickly realised this would be futile as we were now heading down hill on super slippery mud, and D. glanduligera , found on the side of the a down was the only way my car wanted to go dirt road. Photo: Stephen Fretwell ... I started to get a bit worried. Things got kinda hairy a couple of times once involving a rather large Sean checking to see how deep the water is as George looks on in anguish at one of the many pothole, the front of my car and a obstacles that awaited us when we went looking for CP’s at Anglesea. Photo: Stephen Fretwell lot of mud (I turned my car into a Anglesea Adventure bulldozer!). Well things started to get worse as the D. pygmaea Photo: Stephen Fretwell GEORGE CASPAR At the first road side stop we found wheel ruts in the road took over, basicly all Drosera auriculata, D. peltata (normal Vic. steering was lost and the poor car was About now Sean came out with the n September I went CP hunting at form), D. pygmaea, D. whittakeri ssp aberrans bearly (mostly not) clearing the central timely “it wasn't this bad two weeks ago...” Anglesea with Sean and Steve. We met and a few D. glanduligera just emerging from mound in the road, and then there were the We finally emerged off the clay to sandier at Sean’s house on Sunday morning, I dormancy. pot-holes! The entire track became a slip - soil which is not as slippery so I regained we wanted to have a look at the popula - A bit further down the now dirt track pery, thick mess of clay/mud. All I could do control of the car. I was like 'Thank %@*! tion of red D. peltata (possibly D. peltata revealed a huge amount of D. auriculata, was keep the momentum up and hope for that is over". Sean looked at me and said var. gracilis ) at Anglesea. Sean couldn't get “That’s not the bad bit...”. I was starting to get macrantha ssp. planchonii and whittakeri as the best. If I lost momentum the car would the use of 'his' 4 wheel drive Jeep, and as have sunk to the axles. Things got kinda hairy a bit more worried about now. There was well as a few more developed D. glandulig - he found the dirt tracks to be not to bad, a couple of times once involving a rather NO WAY I could get my car back up that hill. era. The D. whittakeri had finished flowering we decided to take my Subaru Liberty large pothole, the front of my car and a lot So the only way was down. We somehow station wagon... and were getting to the end of the season of mud (I turned my car into a bulldozer!). managed to get the car through the washouts We arrived there just after a light and the planchonii had just finished flower - Another one a tree..
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