Flesh eating plants in the wild west

A butterfly lives dangerously in Derek's deadly garden. Picture: Hattie Miles

 

An encounter with flesh-eating plants in the wild west

Drove all the way to Cornwall to see Derek Clavell-Bate, cultivator of a weird and wonderful collection of carnivorous plants and keeper of the National Collection of Nepenthes. We then drove all the way home again and wrote a magazine feature that eventually saw the light of day in October 2011.
It did get published eventually and more than a year later I have returned to this blog. It wasw an interesting piece and wound up in Cornwall Life magazine.