I just realised I never got around to posting about the Triffid Park open day back in 2019... so here goes!
Triffid Park is Australia's largest CP nursery and has some lovely plants. Just before COVID reared its nasty head, they held their annual open day, which I managed to make. My aim was to acquire a few Sarracenia flava clones missing from the collection.
While I have been to Triffid Park three times and knew what to expect, a first visit is quite overwhelming due to the sheer volume of plants.
To show what I mean, here's a view of the main Sarracenia greenhouse:
Their Nepenthes house is extremely impressive too. The racks were quite bare within hours of the doors being opened!
Their massive specimen plants of N. truncata and Heliamphora were stunning!
Carpets of Pinguicula emarginata x (x 'Wesser') grew under the Nepenthes in the cooler intermediate conditions.
Here's the Triffid Park clone of N. veitchii x maxima, and a N. clipeata x ventricosa.
And to round it off, here's the VFT house. Triffid Park offer a huge number of VFT clones, and seeing so many in one place was spectacular indeed.
I'm hoping this was not the last Triffid Park open day... may there be many more to come!
Till next time!
JN.
