BACPS 2014 Annual Show and Sale Part One: The Juried Show

I was sitting down to put together one post about the BACPS Annual Show and Sale, and I realized that it was way too big for one post. Instead, this post will be of the juried show winners. A subsequent post has a description of the event and other pictures. The categories for the show were as follows:

• Art
• Terrarium/Dish Garden
• Butterwort (Pinguicula)
• Sundew (Byblis, Drosera, Drosophyllum, Roridula)
• American Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia)
• Tropical Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes)
• Other Pitcher (Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, Cephalotus, Brocchinia)
• Aquatic (Utricularia, Genlisea, Aldrovanda, Polypompholyx)
• Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea)

 I have names/species for almost all the entries. When the BACPS publishes the results I'll update this post with any corrections.

Let's jump into it! The entries were truly fantastic – I've never seen so many beautiful plants all together in one place.

Art

First: Utricularia humboldtii flower at Mt. Roraima, photograph, Arthur Yin

Second: Sarracenia leucophylla, watercolor, Dana Gardner

Third: Nepenthes, metal sculpture, Benjamin Bailey

Terrarium/Dish Garden

First: Dish Garden, Stephen Davis

This amazing entry deserves a second photo. The dish is about 2 and a half feet (~75 cm) in diameter, and the plants are growing on a lovely mound. The border is fine sand.

Second: Dish Garden, Mixed Species, Dana Gardner

Third: Ping Trio, Doris Quick

Butterwort (Pinguicula)

First: Pinguicula gypsicola, Matt Byers

Second: Pinguicula immaculata,  Arthur Yin

This plant is 4 years old.

Third: Pinguicula moranensis, Doris Quick

Sundew (Byblis, Drosera, Drosophyllum, Roridula)

First: Drosera burmannii, Devon Peterson (that's me!). Also second in show.

Second: Drosera regia, Drew Martinez

This is another stunning entry that deserves two pictures. It's the dewiest sundew I've ever seen.

Third: Drosera spatulata, Charlie Simpson

 American Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia)

There's a bit of confusion for me in the 2nd and 3rd place winners. They're by the same grower, but appear to have the labels confused (I have pictures of the labels that I'm not including here). According to the labels, second place is S. purpurea venosa x flava ornata, and third place is just S. purpurea. I think it's the other way around. I'm going to label them based on my instincts, but call me out if you think I'm wrong.

First: Sarracenia hybrid, Larry Logoteta

Second: Sarracenia purpurea, Dana Gardner

Third: Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa x flava ssp. ornata, Dana Gardner

See what I mean about the labels?

Tropical Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes)

First: Nepenthes lowii (Kinbalu), Tom Kahl. Also third in Show.

Second: Nepenthes macrophylla x lowii (natural hybrid), Drew Martinez. This is the worst picture I took of a winning plant, and I'm sorry.

Third: Nepenthes maxima x talangensis 'Lady Pauline', Will Haines

Other Pitcher (Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, Cephalotus, Brocchinia)

First: Darlingtonia california, Chris Lew

Second: Heliamphora neblinae, Drew Martinez

Third: Heliamphora neblinae x hispida, Arthur Yin

Aquatic (Utricularia, Genlisea, Aldrovanda, Polypompholyx)

First: Utricularia alpina x endressii, Matt Byers

Second: Utricularia calcyfida 'Asenath Waite', Matt Byers (along with hitchhiking Byblis)

Third: Utricularia humboldtii, Arthur Yin

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea)

There's also a bit of confusion in the ribbons shown in this category. The ribbons for first and second place were mis-arranged when I took these photos. Later on in the show they had been swapped, and Fernando Rivadavia (one of the judges) confirmed on Facebook that Larry's D. muscipula 'Ginormous' was actually the first place winner, and Dana's D. muscipula 'Jaws' took home the second. They're both beautiful plants in any case!

First: Dionaea muscipula 'Ginormous', Larry Logoteta

Second: Dionaea muscipula 'Jaws', Dana Gardner

Third: Dionaea muscipula, Benjamin Bailey

Best in Show

As I said, it was an amazing show. I'll end this post with a recap of the Best in Show winners, with the Dish Garden by Stephen Davis, my Drosera burmannii, and Tom Kahl's Nepenthes lowii in First, Second, and Third respectively.

Amazing plants, and congratulations to all the winners.

Thanks to Josh Brown and Fernando Rivadavia for helping me out with some names and clearing up some earlier confusion. Updated 7-9-14 with info from BACPS Spring 2014 Newsletter.