THE GETTING IN OF THE LARGE-SIZED CACTI AND SUCCULENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN-BALCHIK HAS BEGUN

Today begins the annual collection of large-sized cacti and succulents from the open exposition in the Gods Garden in an indoor greenhouse. The heat-livong plants will hibernate at a temperature of about 15 ° C in the greenhouse. There they will live the typical of our latitudes low winter temperatures until the spring.
 
Cacti are predominantly of the genus Opuntia (Opuntia), and the Aloe succulents, as well as the family Euphorbiaceae and Agavaceae.
 
The employees of the garden are about to transfer around 700 plants, over 500 of which cacti, reaching 650-700 kg. Due to their large size and fragile structure, operation will be extremely careful to limit fragmentation. The fragments will be rooted and will be exposed along with other large-scale species at the opening of the next summer season.
 
The exotic plants are the pearls of the University Botanic Garden-Balchik, which has the second largest cacti and succulents collection in Europe after the one in the Principality of Monaco.