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I have had plants for many years,
collecting different types. I only have a limited room,
and when I had a huge collection, the plants has to be cut back through the summer, and especially in the
autumn. Then, most of them was placed in green plastic-boxes and put in a
dark corner in my living-room. This prevented my living-room from being to
damp in wintertime. Now, I have no plants, but a
Beaucarnea recurvata,
due to my traveling
for extensive periods.
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MY ACTUAL PLANTS - THROUGH THE 20
YEARS
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2004.
The envelope is pressed!
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2006.
Reduced to one or two members of each family. On the
other hand; I still find new families...
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2007.
Returning from
Africa, I choose only to have a few
plants, the rest donated to Copenhagen Botanical Garden. Now, I only
have five huge caudiciforms and the
Taxonomy Collection.
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2008.
Start the year with a complete
Taxonomy Collection, but cut down to
the five huge caudiciforms and a mixed pot during the summer.
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2009 Not much new
this year, but some details from the mixed 17 centimetre pot:
I'm was not sure what it is, but
something seem to grow fast below .
The tall grass-like one is
Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, with a
small "home bred"
Kedrostis africana.
The huge Kedrostis africana, Dioscorea mexicana, Fockea edulis, Stephania venosa and Pyrenacantha malvifolia looks like last year. |
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2010.
After eight months in
Ecuador,
Indonesia and
Galapagos,
my caudiciforms are taken out of dormancy 13/5 - and look as usual. Two new
members of my collection:
Cyclamen
hederifolium
- flowering during winter
time - they told me. Ø=20 centimeters. An Indonesian
ant fern:
Lecanopteris carnosa,
added to the mixed pot.
Even though it
have been stored away in a dark closet, the
Cyclamen hederifolium start flowering in late
July, just as always. The male
Dioscorea mexicana
start flowering
in August. Not that impressive.
The
Pyrenacantha malvifolia might
flower, but not that impressive either. Sterile, minute
fruits. The male
Stephania venosa is slightly
more impressive
- but not much.
And
Fockea edulis is not much
bigger. August
2010. While working in a lab attached to Copenhagen
Botanical Garden, I got the urge to challenge my
gardener skills
back, and started up my
Taxonomy Collection once again. Pretty much the same plants as last - even some
individual plants - but I chancing into the smallest members
of each family. The entire 22 classes of Plantae
stuffed together in two pots! Well, the Gingko and Gnetum
still misses: I work on rooting them at work.
The wet pot
contains
Psilotum nudum,
Equisetum arvense,
Huperzia squarrosa, a new
Isoetes velata,
Berberis thunbergii, a new
Taxus baccata,
Azolla filiculoides,
Selaginella kraussiana,
Peperomia retusa and
the
five mosses: Andreaeopsida Anthocerotopsida, Bryopsida, Hepatopsida
and Sphagnopsida. The dry pot is
stuffed with two
Welwitschia mirabilis,
Ephedra gerardiana,
Stangeria eriopus,
Gyrocarpus americanus,
Avonia dinteri,
Ginkgo biloba
and
Gnetum gnemon.
A
Dorstenia foetida,
Avonia papyracea
and Avonia sp. have joined the
Taxonomy Collection.
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2012. After five weeks in Vietnam, my Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata have died, and I decides to drop the Welwitschia mirabilis in the same pot. While it is still winter, the Kedrostis africana, Pyrenacantha malvifolia, Stephania venosa and strangely enough; the Cyclamen hederifolium are dormant. The Fockea edulis keeps the leaves, and the Dioscorea mexicana grow strongly. First of April, the Pyrenacantha malvifolia is showing new strength: 26 vines, and a new sort of flowers: Now in clusters. The Stephania venosa and Kedrostis africana are watered for the first time, and the Dioscorea mexicana sets out a new branch along the old one. Even the Fockea edulis set out new vines. The Stephania venosa however, is delayed.
I the autumn, I figure I will be traveling quite a lot the next half year or more, and all plants are places in my office at the university. Nice and warm with sufficient light and people to care for them. I just cross my fingers... The Dioscorea mexicana completely covers a four square meter window with several layers of leaves. The Stephania venosa on the other hand got a late start, and haven not gotten its usual size. The Pyrenacantha malvifolia have reach a size where it still can be lifted - barely!
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2013. Considering I only got the vine glass with some small cacti at home, predictable little is happening. The Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus v macdowellii don't seems to have made it through winter, the Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele is only adding to size while both the Gymnocalycium anisitsii ssp. volkeri and Gymnocalycium ragonesei ssp. lausseri. are flowering:
Meanwhile in my lab at the botanical
garden, my huge plants fills the 3,5 meter high windows. |
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2014.
My collection have now been cut back to a single, but rather big plant:
Pyrenacantha malvifolia. The
skinny winter-growth is cut back, and watering started on the first of
April. It is grown in my lab at the university. Too big for my windows at home,
and someone will take care of it ,when I abroad. The other plants have
been adopted by very skilled friends.
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2015. My collection have not grown in numbers, just in size. This year, I didn't cut back the winter-growth of the Pyrenacantha malvifolia, and it formed a nice mat in the huge window. The diameter of the caudex are getting close to 50 centimeters. I wonder what would happen, if I didn't cut it back every year? Or gave it some soil? It have 1/4 soil compared to the volume of the caudex.
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| 2016. Where the plant use to be stored during the winter at my warm office, it remained at the cold "barn" this year, around 12-15 C. The caudex remains at 50 centimeters in diameter, and heavy as a similar sized rock! Where there use to be one meter shoot at first of April, it remains dormant - I thought, but when it got warmer, it turned out it was rotting. Apparently, it does not appreciate a cold winter storage - unless it was the water my colleague gave it, despite my clear demands NOT to. | ||||||||||
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2022. Well, that was my most recent plant collection. Now, I have none, except a couple of Beaucarnea recurvata seedlings in my kitchen. Well, they were seedlings in 2006. Now, each caudex measure 25 centimeters across, and they get pruned way back every year.
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MY COLLECTION 
