2020 Luvulla

Heipsansaa kaikki !'

Luulin jo että en pääsisi koskaan tänne alkuperäiseen blogiin takaisin. Mä unohdin kirjautumistiedot ja onhan tässä tapahtunut aika paljon välillä. Parissa kolmessa vuodessa.

2018 

- muutin pysyvästi Yhdysvaltoihin

- menin naimisiin 

2019

- asuttiin Virginiassa

- meille muutti Oliivi-kissa

- sain greencardin 13 kuukauden odotuksen jälkeen 

- maalasin paljon sinä aikana kun en voivut ajaa tai olla töissä juuri greencardittomuuden takia. Mulla on lihansyljäkasvitaidesivusto https://www.curzonbotanicals.com/ Sekä t-paidat ja printit lähdee edullisesti Suomeen :)

2020

- muutettiin Oak Ridge, Tennesseehen

- oon vakituisesti töissä, samoin mun mies

Kuva meidän takapihalta. Pitää kitkeä tänään

Meillä on kaksio jossa kasvit ovat vallanneet "master bedroomin". Tää kuva on meijän highlandereista. Niillä on oma ilmastointilaise yönajaksi, koska ne luonnostaan kasvaa vuoristoisilla alueilla.

Lopetellaan tämä päivitys Oliiviin :-)) Meidän vaavi.

Terkuin,

Siru

A NEW Temporary Plant Blog

As you know. I landed in the U.S and Meadowview about 5 days ago and I decided to write my things there because I'm going to have about 360 blog posts and this blog will be exploded if I do so here. Here's another thing: everything will be in  FINNISH. Because last year I really used quite a lt of time translating my thoughts to english. This blog will be still alive and starts living again in fall once I get back to Finland after this "short" trip :)

So'up heres the address:

https://kasvireissuamerikkaan.blogspot.fi/

Terrarium Inspiration

Ookkay I'm just gonna leave this (filler) here, heh heh.

http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/56067-krzysios-nepenthes/
 
http://www.sitecarnivore.org/installation/terrarium

http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/58525-my-terrariums/
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/52401-heliamphora-other-jewels-of-my-highland-terrarium/&page=2

Greetings from the fridge

About 60% of my plants are spending their dormancy in a fridge and I checked them out yesterday. Some Sarrs like leucos and alatas had woken up and put out leggy and white leaves whereas some were still nicely dormant.I cleaned the most of the Sarrs by pulling of dead and old leaves and for those woken up ones I put them under the light to out basement.  Mostly everyhing was fine but I lost a few seedgrown Darlingtonias because 'cos they froze in the fridge and I also lost D.filiformis earlier this winter because of the same thing. Oh well I have never tried this fridge dormancy method so I'm quite happy with he outcome so far.

Also remember that the rest of my temperate species are buried to the ground outside and thats also going to be interesting to see whether they make it or not.

Plant fridge

DM 'Sawtooth'

leuco

a bowl of flytraps

not sure if it will make it. the other side of another bowl had frozen and the plants also there..

I HATE aphids!How do they end up getting there=?!

nice seedgrown Darlingtonias

And some not..R.I.P :(

Clean and happy!

 Thats all folks this time! :-)

I'm alive! Elossssa!

Jeez guys! I'ts unbeliveable how time like umm 3 months pass that quickly!

 Seriously I got a job in November and since then I had to work and do my thesis in my limited free time. However I finished my thesis and presented it about a week ago quite like confirming that I've successfully ended my studies! You might call me a horticulturist now! I'm still waiting for true and official papers but yeah it took me 3,5 years to pass my Bachelor's Degree. And oh yeah I'm going to U.S in March for 6 months! Its time to flee cold and gloomy Finland and go back to help MBRS again! :-)

A lot has happened with my plants which means quite much hence need to dedicate a seperate post for 'em.


Heres some current photos:

new sarra seeds!

So today I went pick up a letter that I had received from frangelo (cpuk). I got the leuco seeds (LL 51 Leuco Russel Road x L9mk ALBA ) from him 3 years ago and those babies have grown very nicely! I think I have around 5-6 plants from the batch of 25 seeds. None of the m have flowered so far but maybe next year?

I was delighted to hear that frangelo had some last year's seeds though he didn't make any this season. I've grown well sorta old seeds from Tricky Utrici and I'm not worried at all to start growing 1 year old seeds.




I'm about to put the seeds in stratification tomorrow but to remind me in the future here's what I got:
I do not own the following photos!

XSL ..25  -  SXM61 S.x Moorei  “Timothy King   x    H 113 mk S.x Moorei 'Adrian Slack


LE.33  -   H 112 mk S.x Moorei 'Leah Wilkerson' Walton Co, FL   x   SL61 (Cedric)


WK..39 -  Wilkerson White  Knight   x    H 157 mk Wilkerson Red


XM..57 -  H45 Red Sumatra   x   F 174mk

 

XM..59 -  L 69 mk   x   H 157 mk Wilkerson Red

XM ..62 - S.x Moorei "Pinkish top" H87 MK   x   SL61 (Cedric)

our cats

I still do miss our oldest cat Ninni who passed away in March this year.. her body was failing and we unfortunaly had to put her down because se had problems with breathing and so on :'(( She'd been around even since we moved here in 1999 but I guess you can't help when its about 21-year-old cat. But I bet she had the greatest time of the life <3

While I was away in the USA my family had gotten a new family member in June, 4  months old kitten named Nisse.  He's a totally a charmer and very bold whereas our second oldest can Nikke (3 years) is quite reserved compared to him. We also have about 14-16 years old calico Nuppu that has to be taken to vet today because.. just to check her overall health.






Nikke


Nuppu and Nisse


A photo of me and Ninni taken a month before her passing in March.... :'(

Bogging at Nuuksio National Park 25.9.2015

Nuuksio National Park (Nuuksion kansallispuisto in Finnish, Noux nationalpark in Swedish) is in Southern Finland, 35 km from Helsinki on the outskirts of Espoo and the neighboring counties of Kirkkonummi and Vihti.

Established only in 1994, Nuuksio is one of Finland's newest national parks, set up to ensure that a piece of pristine wilderness is kept within striking distance of the capital. Its location so close to a major city is unusual, and due mostly to the fact that the rocky and wet terrain was unsuitable for farming or other development.

Nuuksio's landscape is archetypically Finnish: conifer and birch forests, forty-three lakes, small swamps between them and gentle rolling hills, sometimes covered in moss, sometimes with the granite bedrock exposed where the vast ice sheets of the last ice age scraped them clean. There are plenty of quiet spots of beauty, but don't expect jaw-dropping gorges or soaring mountains (good advice for traveling anywhere in Finland, that).

source: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Nuuksio_National_Park

So. We decided to visit Nuuksio for the first time ever and we surely found some very good bogs there! Unfortunaly the season is so far that all the sun´dews were dormant and I could only spot their flower stalks. 

I saw many floating peat islands so there must be carnivores out there! I've never seen peat island like those in Finland (but in Virginia!) so I became super excited!!

I can't wait to be there the summer season is at our hands! :-)

Nepenthes lowii joined the gang!

I'm super excited to tell you that I finally got my hands on one of the most iconic Nepenthes species- THE Nepenthes lowii. And didn't get 1 but 4 little babies grown by seed by wonderful vincent from cpuk.

I'm totally loking forward growing there (toilet)plants haha! :)) Well I need to wait for like 10 years before I can see the uppers but its never too late to get the plants"!

Plant package from Christian Klein

  I went to pick my first plant package of this year. It was actually sopposed to arrive a week ago, but Christian was busy and it was delayed because of that.  Fortunately he included a few bonus plants to compensate time that I had to wait.

So I ordered these:

S. purpurea ssp. purpurea "Schweiz"
S. purpurea ssp. purpurea f. heterophylla
S. purpurea ssp. venosa "Wavy Lid"
N. gracilis
N. N ampullaria "Green Giant Pitchers", Tayve, Irian Jaya Lowland
+
bonus plants were
N. rafflesiana
S. purpurea ssp purpurea "Maine"

   Kävin eilen hakemassa postissa vuoden ensimmäåisen kasvitilauksen joka tuli Saksasta. Sen piti tulla jo viikko sitten, mutta myyjällä oli kiirettä ja se lähtikin viikko myöhästä (jonka takia sainkin bonuskasveja). En ollu koskaan tilannu heiltä joten oli kiva yllätys kun kaikki kasvit oli hyväkuntoisia ja isoja.


purpureas


Nepenthes

Bogging at Lapakisto Nature Reserve 31.7.2016

Species spotted:


Drosera rotundifolia



Drosera anglica



Drosera x obovata (rotundifolia x anglica)