Winter
test 2003: Individual participant card
Nr. 015 Kari Syrjanen
Italy ~
San Felice Circeo ( Latina )
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CACTUS ART
NURSERY
Cultivation and Mail Sale
of Cacti and Succulents. |
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 An aspect of the natural
environment of the circeo: the dune landscape |
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I am an impassioned and
collector of succulents for about 4 years, and mine is, for now,
a modest collection (around 100 different kinds of plants,
without counting double and scions) that I cultivate in a very
sunny porch exposed to south-west and in garden in full sun.
I live in St. Felice Circeo in the province of Latin, in the
open country, to an altitude that is on the level of the sea or
a little bottom of it (thinking about the fact that my zone,
around 70 years ago was a swamp).
The least temperatures rarely go down of some degree under the
zero, la lowest that have been able to record it was - 6°C last
winter. The maximum temperature range around the +33°C e + 37°C.
The climate is typically Mediterranean, the summers are warm e ,sometime
, dry with scarce precipitations, winters are mild, and in in
this season the perturbations are more common with rains and
rare hailstorms. |
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 I live in the country in
the proximities of this part of national park: a semi-deciduous
oak-grove of evergreen oak (Quercus ilex), cork-tree (Quercus
suber) and oak (Quercus robur). |
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 Part
of my collection |
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test plants in their new home |
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August 08 2003:I re-potted them a few hours after the
arrival, I used a compost with 40% of pozzolana, 20% of peat and leaf
soil mixed e 40% of gravel, putting on the fund a layer of breach and
covering the surface of the ground with a layer of gravel for aesthetic
and to avoid that the watering take off or moves the soil, I hope that
it is all right.
After re-potting I slightly vaporized them and I gently removed, with a
wad of cotton wool the dust patina that was formed on the surface.
It seems that they appreciated the treatment , but it is an unconscious
impression of mine. I not put them exposed to direct sun light, they are
in a very bright zone, when, in three or four days, I will water them, I’ll
move them to the sun. Could you tell me if I take the risk to burn them,
are they accustomed to the direct sun light or do I have to educate
them? They actually grow in full sun and in a few
days time you can expose them to direct sun light (Valentino) |
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December 30 2003
…since a few weeks a black stain has
appeared on the wound healed of the stock near to the point of
connection and the same "scar" (I don't know whether to call it) it is
closed on itself, the plant (in the greenhouse) is kept dry since
October, made exception for rare vaporizations and doesn't show any
parasite, the stock is a little wrinkled as – however - the other
Opuntias in pots, and I believe is normal. I don't let me try in to
water it. I take other risks considering that it is cold, …. I have seen
others my plants and there is also trace on black stains that however
touching them they go away.
The others two are outdoors to the cold and they are very well only a
little wrinkled. |
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