MY COLLECTION THROUGH THE YEARS


 I only have a limited room, and the plants has to be cut back through the summer, and especially in the autumn. Then, most of them are placed in green plastic-boxes and put in a dark corner in my living-room. This prevent our living-room from being to damp in wintertime.

 The first of April, they are taken out again, and I start watering. Some have already started growing, others are slow starters. There is a sheet of  some of the all-year growers, winter-growers, late dormant and late starters:    Dormant Periods .

 When I'm re-potting, it is usually to smaller pots! Some of the older plants are getting close to bonsai.

 The windows are facing west. I guess south would have been better, but it works. The pots are glazed clay, looking good, easy to clean but it doesn't let any air in for the roots. Not good, but it works.

 The first couple of years, I had a air-humidity around 100%. Lost some plants because of that. Then I bought a de-humidity-device, got the humidity down to 45-50%, and I lost other plants. It aren't easy to grow from seeds any more either. BUT: The wall-paper are no longer green and black, my health is better and my girl-friend don't complain about her shoos turning green and fluffy. 



Spring in window 1, 2003


Spring 2003 in window 2.


Summer  2003 and a bit crammed.


Only two rows  - yet...


Left unattended for a month, and you got a mess!

 

Winter storage.

 

Window 1, early summer 04.

Window 2, early summer 04.

Window 3 out of 2!, early summer 04.

Window 1, spring 2006.
Rikke and some of the plants have mowed...

Window 2, spring 2006.
And many more has come

Window 3 out of 2!, spring 2006.
 Flowers of 2006.

Window 1, summer 2006.
Again this year, it seems a bit crammed.

Window 2, summer 2006.
But then again: Here are 87 different families

Window 3, summer 2006.
 Flowers of 2006.

Winter 2006. This is not for the fainthearted: Due to my half year in South Africa, I had to put all my plants into the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen.

Summer 2007. A slightly change in the type and amount of plants, after the half year in South Africa.

Early summer 2008. Only 7 pots to maintain. Kind of get enough working in Copenhagen Botanical Garden...

Kedrostis africana, Dioscorea mexicana, [Podocarpus falcatus, Isoetes lacustris, Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, Welwitschia mirabilis], Fockea edulis, Stephania venosa and Pyrenacantha malvifolia.
Summer 2008. Only 6 pots to maintain - at home.