{"id":98,"date":"2010-07-14T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.wordpress.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:53:07","slug":"addiction-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2010\/07\/addiction-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sarracenia<\/a><\/p>\n

[Photo: Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’, top of hood view <\/em>– from 2008]<\/p>\n

In this “hobby”- a few of us could look back and see where it had really set foot and cemented itself into our life.\u00a0 For me, I have always been into plants, always into gardening. As a child I grew up with my grandparents, helping them out in the garden.\u00a0 The garden has always been a part of me and my life. [More on this and how I got into the carnivores later…]<\/p>\n

That one plant that really cemented my addiction to Sarracenia and creating new hybrids was S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’.\u00a0 (Thanks Brooks!)\u00a0 This was my addiction.\u00a0 A truly fantastic and spectacular plant indeed. It was in December of 2006 when I first received this plant; I knew then that my addiction was forever interwoven in the fiber of my being.\u00a0 December 2006 – the winter of my discontent. I wanted more.\u00a0 I was hungry to learn so much more.<\/p>\n

At this point in 2006, I had been growing carnivores for about oh, 2 or 3 years or so. I had a small yet rapidly growing\u00a0 collection at this time, mostly of plants that were pretty available.\u00a0 I visited a couple carnivorous plant nurseries already within the past couple years and was just getting into this carnivore thing. One of the places I visited in 2005 was Karen Oudean’s nursery in Washington State.\u00a0 Later on she told me that\u00a0 she could already see it in me and already knew that I would be in this deep. Ha! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyway, at this time, I had plants like those Venus fly traps, sundews,\u00a0 and quite a few pitcher plants.\u00a0 I definately was not too knowledgeable about all of the different cultivars out there, but when I saw S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’ – that REALLY did it. Floodgates opened.\u00a0 I remember feeling how much I wanted to know. How much I wanted to learn so much more about Sarracenia and hybridization.\u00a0 From this point on I began to seek out and talk more with people who have been growing, learning as much as I could.\u00a0 More importantly – I was learning and being inspired by their wisdom.\u00a0 I am forever thankful for those of you who took the time to teach and inspire me (you know who you are!)<\/p>\n

So for me, yeah, you could say it was S. ‘Leah Wilkerson’\u00a0 that really sparked the insanity.<\/p>\n

\"Sarracenia<\/a><\/p>\n

[Photo: Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’, from 2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photo: Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’, top of hood view – from 2008] In this “hobby”- a few of us could look back and see where it had really set foot and cemented itself into our life.\u00a0 For me, I have always … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,23,54,104,114,130,170,175],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-addiction","tag-carnivorous-plant","tag-garden","tag-obsession","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-sarracenia","tag-start","tag-the-pitcher-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}