I grew some of these things when I was a kid in the 1970s in southern California. A couple years ago I looked at the CP Society Web site to see whether anything had changed as far as culture. Not much. The Darlingtonia in habitat receives pretty much full sun, high humidity, chilly air temperatures (jacket or sweater on many sunny summer days), cold roots (snow runoff from Mount Shasta and similar mountains year round) and very pure water. Winters can be very cold and snowy. Most populations grow standing in moving water that is less than 15 degrees F / 8C above freezing. I have known people who made ice from reverse osmosis water every day and each morning put it on their Darlingtonias. If air temperatures soar too high or humidity dips too low the things burn. And they're really tall if grown properly so it's very hard to provide these conditions in a terrarium. In common with almost all other US carnivorous plants they require cold winter dormancy. The Sarracenias are considered easy outdoors in humid summer-warm climates (think the Deep South in the USA.) They weren't easy at all outdoors in southern California. They need pure water that changes frequently, enough root room, appropriate planting medium and a cold to very cold winter rest depending on the species. Live sphagnum moss performs orders of magnitude better than the next-best things, which are either a) clean dead sphagnum or b) a 50:50 mix of peat : coarse sand. Not much else works for the substrate. They also need nearly full sun, neither growing well nor coloring up in much shade. Hybridizing has been directed toward miniatures that can be accommodated in a terrarium. They are a problem in low-humidity climates outdoors but can be managed in large terraria with high-intensity fluroescent lights. There are now good fluorescents designed for aquaria that work well for high-light-intensity terrarium plants and aren't very hot. People in warmer winter climates often winter their CP in plastic baggies with sphagnum in the refrigerator. S. purpurea especially requires getting cold in the winter, since it's from northern Wisconsin and Michigan. And anybody who lives in a true Mediterranean climate and is willing to grow a bog plant in a pot ought to try and grow the Australian pitcher, Cephalotus follicularis. It was considered easy to grow in coastal southern California but most people in warm-humid summer climates can't grow it. As for bulb content, my Pelargonium incrassatum is blooming furiously and I've been pollinating it. I should have a good crop of seed for the BX. I took some photos today and will work toward getting them up on the Wiki eventually. Hold your breath; it's a very beautiful and floriferous plant. There should be a good quantity of Haemanthus albifloss seed to send in as well. Also blooming this week: Albuca navicula (pollinated) and an A. which I have seen sold as both ?spiralis and ?namaquana. It has narrow fiddlehead spiralling leaves with tiny pegs on the abaxial leaf surface, rather than the thick green and smooth corkscrewing leaves of what most people call A. spiralis. Its flowering will not overlap with A. navicula. Freesia refracta Lachanalia alba, bulbillifera, aloides v quadricolor, concordiana, orchioides v. glaucina, unicolor Lapeirousia monticola (I think) Moraea falcifolia Various Oxalis obtusa color forms, many of which appear to be setting real seed! I grouped them all together and the bees are busy. Also several O. purpurea varieties. Romulea barkerae, monticola Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA