Hello
I used to be a member of this forum but never wrote anything...
so I would like to shortly introduce myself:
I'm about 40 years old and live in Chamapgnier close to Grenoble (French Alpes, S E of France)).
I'm growing cacti and succulent for nearly 20 years with up and down...
and the last 8 years were more like "up" !!!!
I'm a member of AJEM (Jardin Exotique de Monaco), of CSSA (the famous American association), of BSI (Broms), and ARIDES (French association too) and BCSS. I'm on different web forums.
I have started with cacti because of their "graphical" beauty and put slowly more interest in phytogeography and clones with local data. For the last 10 years, I'm a lot more into the hardy cacti and succulents, trying to acclimataze plants by selecting specific clones..
I made a small greenhouse (18m2) (concrete+wood+polycarbonate)
http://public.fotki.com/El-Fakir/rocail ... ion-serre/
and 1 plastic tunnel greenhouse
http://public.fotki.com/El-Fakir/rocail ... in-meylan/
and made several cactus beds covered or uncovered
http://public.fotki.com/El-Fakir/rocailles-et-serres-1/
in different places around my house...
http://public.fotki.com/El-Fakir/rocail ... hampagnie/
And at the moment I'm eyeing the lands in front of my house...!!!
We have here hot summers with 33-36 c and cold winters with -6 -4 c with every once in a while cold spells at -9 that can drop extremely to -13c (like last winter). Rainfall is between 600 and 1000 mm with more than 2000 h of sunlight. We are at 250m high.
That's it for now
Bye
Thierry
ps: sorry for my english
re- new!
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Le Fakir
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Re: re- new!
Bienvenue Thierry Le Fakir 
Another one build-it-yourself guy, eh? Nice job you did over there indeed
Another one build-it-yourself guy, eh? Nice job you did over there indeed TTcacti - C&S database software - http://www.ttimpact.hr/anttun/
Re: re- new!
That's a heavy duty greenhouse! Nice to meet you!
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Le Fakir
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Re: re- new!
Thank's for your compliments !!
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Le Fakir
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Re: re- new!
Thank's again!!
The aim of the kind of building was not to use any heating ... so I went through different books and articles of the 70' to get information about insulation and heating saving system like solar passive greenhouses.
That was a try...
The aim of the kind of building was not to use any heating ... so I went through different books and articles of the 70' to get information about insulation and heating saving system like solar passive greenhouses.
That was a try...