SoCal carnivorous plant enthusiasts aren't just intrigued by the plants eating bugs. They also find joy in 'growing fascinating, beautiful plants.'
They call themselves “Skippy,” a strangely cheerful name for a group devoted to a fairly creepy endeavor — the care and breeding of carnivorous plants.
It’s a little gruesome, “but that’s exactly why people love them so well,” said John Kim, president and co-founder of SCCPE — the Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, which is having its second-ever show and sale June 18-19 at, 2647 East Coast Highway, Corona del Mar, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The show is free with $5 admission to the gardens .
To call carnivorous plants exotic is an understatement — they grow in extraordinary shapes and colors, with the common thread being they all have an area big enough to hold and digest their prey, whether it’s inside the slippery, tube-shaped bodies of North American pitcher plants or the flat sticky leaves of the succulent-like butterwort.David Fefferman stands for a portrait holding a North American pitcher plant, a carnivorous plant, at his home nursery.
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