Yes! that's exactly what I'm doing with spanish moss and vanda types! slowly getting more spanish moss when I see it for sale... I really just need to beg friends for some, but too polite lol

yay to new growth!

and by the way, Bil, that is way too much empty usable space in there for orchids... I don't know whether to be impressed with your self restraint, or to be disappointed in your inability to utilize space to its full capacity...

Sounds like you need to visit the South with a lot of empty suitcases.

Cheeky.

Actually, that's inside the greenhouse in Southern Spain in full summer. Most days it is 40 - 43 in there (that's almost 120F, even with 50% shade cloth and that's the hot side you can see.) Even the Denphals have to go to the (slightly) cooler side where there isn't so much direct sun. Come to think of it, that's where the thermometer is. I shudder to think what the hot side hits on a bad day.

So in the greenhouse are the Denphals, the Catts, the Catasetums and the vanda. Everything else is out in shade areas to survive the summer.

One of the reasons the Catts all went up on mounts is that that freed up that whole side, which is half a metre wide and 6 plus long. Heh, heh heh.
I have some catasetums on order as I figure that if they don't like it there, nothing will. I don't think I dare put the Paphs and phrags that side even in the winter.

Then this is the shade house before and after. There's now about 40 to 50 mounted orchids hanging in there plus half a dozen cymbidiums and all the thin leaves like cambrias, zygos, Miltonias, Odontoglossums and so on.


I have put in fencing mesh in the ceiling of the greenhouse, and I am going to have to work out how those mounts, plus 15 to 20 mounted catts are going to hang there, together with some pitcher plants, and all those hanging basket orchids

Now, what was that you were saying about wasted space?

You are right tho, I am pretty sure I can squeeze in just a few more....

Nepenthes or sarracenia?

Both. The sarracenia trumpets are deadly for flies, in all the time I have had carnivorous plants, NOTHING has has a kill rate like them.

The nerpenthes are a bit fragile here. Dunno if it's the heat. I have a couple doing OK, but most have died. Shame, I would like one that had coloured pitchers that stood out, but the ones I have are all green.

For Southern Spain you'll probably need a low land nepenthes, how cold are your winters? How humid is it?

As for Sarracenia, they're definitely gluttons haha
I think the only thing that beats them might be Drosophyllum which i think are native either near you or a bit further north

40-43C... Miltonia... Odondtoglossum... Zygo.... But your nights cool down. I think that is it.

I've been told Nepenthes absolutely require constant high humidity to pitcher. The ones I see in people's collections here don't pitcher, and don't look so good, even though they're in greenhouses.

Sounds like you need some Cyrtopodium, Eulophia and Oeceoclades.

Ever grow Drosophyllum lusitanica?