About us...

My name is Volker Heinrich and I am growing carnivorous plants since 1980 - yes, that was that magical Venus fly trap followed by a yellow trumpet plant and a cape sundew and many more to come. Especially after 1987, when I became member of the German Carnivorous Plant society GFP. I moved with my plant collection in Germany from Frankfurt to Munich, where I became engineer of horticultural sciences. My horticultural trainings and work brought me to the botanical gardens in Munich, Bremen, Kebun Raya in Indonesia and later for research to the Philippines. However I had to give up my collection, parts of which still can be found in the Botanical garden Würzburg, at the Technical University of Munich and with several friends.

I happened to get married to my coworker Janet in the Philippines, who got us for her studies to Virginia, USA. After one year, I felt terrible, even if Virginia was quite nice. I found out why: I didn't have a carnivorous plant collection. So I started again, this time heavily specialized on tropical pitcher-plants.

Since the Philippines seems to be the most suitable country for a Nepenthophile like me, we settled down here after her studies. Thanks to CITES, I had to sell all plants before moving... :-(

After some odyssey of living in a condo in downtown Manila, a house in Laguna and a an HDB flat in Singapore, we finally decided to put a base in a more plant (and human) friendly climate. We moved in 2006 once more. This time to an intermediate location at 700m in Bukidnon Province on the island of Mindanao.

Meanwhile the amount of people in our household also increased sharply. Suddenly there was a very small fellow called Sam, who is not really that helpful yet in the pitcher-plant production.

For now the pitcher plant thing just remains an obsession, as we somewhat got addicted in traveling around the globe and experiencing other countries...