Just sitting here nodding in agreement with a lot of posts. I think the most important thing at this point is to look at your property and decide the functions you will use it for down the road so you don't ruin the space when you get around to addressing it. Yes, leave access for getting trucks and machinery to various parts of the property, even on three acres. Especially on three acres you plan to fill generously with trees. Yes on considering some groves and avoiding onesie-twosies and when the tree bug bites you, and it will, it's very enticing to want 'one of everything' and three of nothing and the visuals on that can be busy and disjointed. You have a big house, and need to consider proportions so that the trees planted near it don't come off looking dwarfed and the house monstrous. We have an epidemic here of mini-mansions festooned with dwarf weeping cherry trees, the branches pruned abruptly like a bowl haircut. We also found it more logical to start close and move out with our plantings. Although we are not close to any other dwellings, I use plantings as visual blockades to scenes I don't care to see and for privacy, so do look out your windows in the general direction of any tree you consider planting to make sure it DOESN'T block what you want to see, and does what you don't want to see. Yes I do plant trees to block sun for the shading effect. If they are deciduous, blocking sunlight isn't an issue in winter and it has a tremendous impact in summer to keep our stucco over brick house cool. It sort of amazed me to see someone mention leasing solar panels. You lease from them for your power, or they lease from you for the exposure and buy the power you generate? In our neck of the woods, it would be a company wanting to sink an oil well, instead. LOL. I have a perfect south facing roof area, but any solar panels ever getting there would be self-financed and simply supplemental in their efficiency. I don't have central air, and having a boiler heat am not interested in retrofitting ducts to accomodate it. Trees size so much more quickly than you think. I have some aerial shots of our property taken fifteen years apart and it's astounding at the amount of canopy we have now, compared to then. Our annual rainfall is adequate for most of our plantings and we have installed some freeze proof spigots away from the house, but I got a chuckle over the remark of 100 gallon tanks for watering. Tried that one year and .........well....despite how large a tractor you have, you'd better have more than a trailer behind it to pull your water tank. The center of gravity shifts in liquid loads. It ain't purty. Yes on buying small for most trees. They establish more readily and catch up with the bigger, more expensive ones quite quickly. I've had just as good success with B and B, but really the only reason I got the ones I did was I couldn't find them container. This is going to take years and it never really gets done. That's as it should be and part of the adventure. I can honestly say I've never had to rip a tree out because of poor placement. Nobody shares the exact gardening philosophy and what's right for me might not be right for you as far as pleasing to the senses. Over the years I have found I've been much more pleased with a tree whose needs have been met than one unsuitable for the growing conditions. A healthy and robust, easy care tree is often more beautiful than one which you much struggle to keep happy. Remember it's a lot easier to attend to correcting things like improper branch angles than addressing the problems they cause down the road. Have fun with it and enjoy the journey, too.

Several different sundews and butterworts will do good in a terrarium if you have good CFLs or fluorescent tube type T5, T8 or T12 lighting. IMO T5s have the best BANG for the BUCK. Most pygmy, spathulata and capensis sundews do well. I haven't grown any pings yet but I'm sure someone who has will chime in.

He got them from me! Hard giving up my little babies like that, but it's easier knowing there are going to someone who has the desire and aptitude to care for them properly. The Cyclosecta I think is the most incredible ping. Purple leaves and purple flowers. Here's a picture of the proud parent of one of those little ones in bloom... http://community.webshots.com/photo/341602535/441207563sAsXiC Here is a link that might be useful: Cyclosecta in bloom

It would be helpful to know more about sundew, a picture maybe or the variety, the green house and light situation and the area you live but I can work with this. Your purple pitcher can handle lower temps than anything else. Keep wet when actively growing. Needs bright light(full sun) to color up well. The sundew may be forming hybernacula which means it could be going dormant. Hybernacula help to protect the plant from harsh environments. Depending on the plant and location, it may need to be inside by now. It's good that the vft eats but it could be well on it's way to dormancy. This plant also needs full sun to color up well. Keep wet when growing actively. The nepenthes depending on your location should probably be inside. It's getting too cold in most of the northern hemisphere to keep them outside and that may also be too much sun. Nepenthes does not observe dormancy as it is tropical and needs to be kept fairly warm. Most nepenthes don't like wet feet. Never let any of your plants go dry but let the trays dry between watering if the plants are going dormant. When they are dormant just keep the soil damp like a wrung out sponge. Only use rain, distilled or RO water. Tap water with a low PPM of TDS can also be used. There is lots more information here and doing a search for each plant will give you an almost never ending source for good reading and information. If you still have questions after doing the search then come back and ask. Most of the info I have given you is probably here somewhere but felt it was the most important stuff. Ok I'm rambling. Good luck and happy growing.