Hi Grandma M, I’m going to point you to this site for some information because this man sums up how I feel about highland Neps when he added this to his site-
http://www.nepenthesaroundthehouse.com/
Highlanders appreciate lower temperatures and fluctuation. In other words, they need a night time temperature drop. Daytime highs in the 70's to nighttime lows in the 50's are perfect. Extremes of 10 degrees or more in either direction for limited times seems to be acceptable. My acclimated plants can easily withstand night temperatures into the 40's without damage.
Note the word extremes of 10 degrees or more in either direction. Temps in the 40’s may generally be ok for some acclimated highlands but not for all. You will have to experiment growing different highlands to determine which will work best for you because too many variables will exist for anyone to definitely state that any specific Nep would be ok with repeated temperature drops into the 40’s nightly for the winter months. I find a year round drop into the 60’s at night to be optimal.
Similar information can be found at Nepenthes University. Sure do wish he was selling Neps again.
I was poking around on the Internet and I found something that might be of interest to someone who might want to try a Nep in a window-
http://mysite.verizon.net/elgecko1989/Nepenthes.html
These are plants that I have known others to grow successfully in south facing windows so I thought it might be noteworthy.
Post a nursery from which to purchase a Nep…
This young man, Thomas, has become a friend over the years so I’ll give him the plug first-
http://www.dangerousplants.com
He is a distributor for Borneo Exotics.
On his website I found this that might be of interest-
http://www.dangerousplants.com/grow_neps.asp
Below are nurseries that I have ordered Neps from in the past and would not hesitate ordering from again-
http://www.exoticplantsplus.com/catcarnframe.htm
http://www.cascadecarnivores.com/index.php?cPath=23
http://www.lbg-cp.com/prices.cfm?device=Nepenthes
http://www.blackjungle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BJTS&Category_Code=NEP
http://www.equilibriocarnivorousplants.com/
http://www.cobraplant.com/1-inventory.html#Anchor-3800
http://www.sunbelleexotics.com/
http://www.californiacarnivores.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=18
I have ordered a few Neps from Australia however there are so many readily available here in the US that it's not worth bothering with CITES although I wouldn't hesitate ordering from them again if they had something I wanted that I couldn't pick up from a nursery in the US.
If you are interested in carnivorous plants, at some point in time you are going to come across this site-
http://www.flytraps.com/scripts/default.asp
He is an absolutely wonderful person and he certainly knows a lot more about carnivorous plants than I do. It has been my experience that if one wants to buy something from him, it would be my suggestion to consider doing so from eBay where there is a feedback system that sellers should worry about. I forget what his eBay name is but it might be Flytrap or Flytraps. Order from his site and you might risk getting stuck in the position of trying to track down your purchase for weeks or months (as has been the situation with me as well as others and it happened more than once with me). I also don’t like being e-mailed and told that there is going to be a substitution so that my order can be shipped out the next day. I generally know exactly what I want when I am ordering based on plants I already grow. It is my understanding he has a full time job these days. Add that to family and many greenhouses and I could see a person getting back logged with orders as well as other routine maintenance of greenhouses. The owner of this nursery is very popular in carnivorous plant circles and you would probably have to dig a lot online to read information similar to what I shared because he seems to have plants that some collectors want really bad and he trades. I generally don’t make it a practice to trade plants. I’ve probably traded a few times over the years but as a rule of thumb I buy my plants so I do not need to worry about losing a trade.
Heads up-
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq6010b.html