who is a good vendor around my area? or who is a good online vendor that is affordable and reliable?
i would like to get the Mexican ping and any of the nepenthes that are reddish and medium sized, so nothing out of the ordinary.

thanks for any help

Sarracenia Northwest sells those plants and ships very quickly and reliably. They also pack their plants very well. None of the plants I received from them suffered any damage or died back, they just continued growing like nothing had happened.

Pinguiculas are good gnat catchers, but so are sundews. My Drosera capensis and Drosera adelae are competing to see which can eat the most gnats, it looks pretty even now though there are over 35 adelaes growing in one pot to the one lonely capensis. I would say the capensis wins since it is solo and catching almost as many as all the other sundews combined.

Drosera adelae grown under 12000 lumens develops red coloring on leaves as well as tentacles.

The great gnat (not to mention everything else) catcher, Drosera capensis, soon to produce hundreds of seeds.

If you want a nice red colored Nepenthes that is an easy, adaptable plant, I suggest a sanguinea.