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A walk in the flowers: Atlixco's fair


Greenhouses from Atlixco, Morelos and the State of Mexico come to the fair


A walk in the flowers: Atlixco’s fair

The Flower Fair is currently taking place in one of the most beautiful cities in the state of Puebla, Atlixco. Atlixco’s fair takes place annually during the summer, which is one of the best seasons of the year.

The people gather under a roof made of iron sheets, which creates a very special atmosphere, were the smell of corollas and the colors of each one of its petals and leaves is intertwined with the scent of burnt sugar from colorful cotton candies and the fragrance of bottled pulque. The heat makes people blow air on their faces, using a fan or moving the air with the hat or cap that they brought along to protect them from the sun.

Greenhouses from Atlixco, Morelos and the State of Mexico come to the fair each year in order to sell what they produce.

Each year, one’s eyes meet the beauty of the numerous flowers displayed at the fair. Each year this spectacle is the reflection of the public’s preferences: last year’s bonsais and lilies seem to have been replaced by the Brazilian logs or dahlias, which are quickly announcing themselves as the public’s favorites.

During one whole week, people native from Atlixco, Poblanos and people from other states visit the fair and buy their favorite plants, choosing their favorite color and their preferred scent, always finding the right plant to take care of, either planting it in the garden or keeping it inside the house as an adornment.

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The blossoming of edition number seven


From July the 11th, to July the 20th, at Atlixco city, the number seven edition of Expo Flowers and Plants Atlixco 2008 is underway, exhibiting over 150 thousand plants on a surface of 5 thousand square meters.

Visitors from Puebla, Atlixco, Morelos, Puebla’s mountains and sierras, Tlaxcala, the State of Mexico and the Federal District come to the fair each year. According to the organizers and the City Hall, the visitors number 120 thousand people.

Next to the beautiful mud walls of a former temple lies the garden where the flowers and plants are displayed for the costumers.

Overall, the fair has 130 exhibitors, most of which are producers from Atlixco’s area, 20 from the states of Puebla and Morelos.

Bonsais, roses, fruit trees, sun and shadow plants, plant pots, grass, fertilizers, contact with wholesalers and good advice on how to take care of plants and flowers are some of the options offered to the visitors.

And what about the prices? Well, it depends. One can find great things from ten pesos up to fifty pesos. However, if one’s interested in things like grafts or plants that require more attention, one can pay between five hundred to forty thousand pesos.

The exhibit also has a food court selling ice-cream, sherbets, cotton candy, cheese bread, coffee and wines brought from Puebla’s Sierra Norte.

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Dahlias, as we said before, are extremely abundant this year


The new among the green

In Atlixco’s flower fair, the pansies, daisies and tulips have not been sought out as much as past years. They remain hidden from the customer’s view, opening the way for more exotic and diverse flowers, which due to their beauty, fill the flower shops and constitute the most expensive adornments.

Because of their variety and beauty, orchids are among the costumer’s favorite flowers. One can find purple, lilac, yellow (simulating a tiger’s skin), dotted, white with red and vibrant pistils, succulent orchids.

Dahlias, as we said before, are extremely abundant this year. Their corollas are intense, heavy and they are the size of a hand. One can find them in purple, yellow and pink. The origin of the dahlias reminds us of Chignahuapan’s patios, from the sierra. Those enormous patios filled with plant pots where flowers are planted and then forgotten, who, in spite of the rain and other climate conditions, still bloom.

Nowadays, the buyers will keep them in a small and confined space, tied to the plant pot. It can be that flowers turn out to “be shy” and may not bloom, or it maybe the flowers will adapt to the spaces provided by the city.

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Small chilies from Holland

As one enters the flower fair, turning right, one is surprised by the colors and diversity of a curious plant: the chilies, very small chilies that decorate plant pots: one can find them in an intense red and covering the entire range of colors like orange, yellow and even green; an intense green that imitates the green from its leaves.

The producers are nice enough to tell us that they brought these seeds from the Netherlands to plant them here.

They can be consumed by humans: who wouldn’t want to have one’s own supply of Mexican’s favorite spice?

Right after seeing them, one wants to lay hands on them and bite them. You can buy them for fewer than fifty pesos. The plant grows and expands in their pot; this is why one has to move it to another plot, take care of the soil and nourish it.

Coming from the neighboring state of Morelos, the chilimovil –that’s how it’s called- arrived loaded with these curious plants, which immediately caught the attention –as well as the money- of the visitors.

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The thirst for the succulent




Known as ‘the succulents’, these plants are not the same as a cactus.

‘All cacti are succulent plants, but NOT all succulent plants are cacti’. This is an affirmation that remains unclear.

A succulent plant (or fat plant) does have a unique characteristic: it is adapted to survive a determined amount of time without any water. This varies according to each plant’s specie, age and size, as well as how long can it go without water.

Succulent plants have adapted to be capable of survival: they have a part in their body which is bigger than the rest where they store water. The word ‘succulent’ comes from Latin ‘succus’, which means big, fat, thick. This is how a succulent plant is able to store water, be it in its leaves, its stem or its roots.

Succulent plants actually span over fifty different plant families, covering approximately 10,000 diverse plants. All of these plants have particular colors, shapes and flowers. Some of them happen to be more attractive than others due to their shape and others due to their type of flowers. As if this wasn’t enough, some are tiny pants which bloom annually and others are full grown trees.

These fifty families include the cactus family or CACTACEAE. These cactus families are constituted by about 1,810 different species all around the world. It is important to notice that Mexico is the country with most species of this kind, approximately 800. In addition, most of Mexican cacti are endemic, which means that these plants only grow in one specific place or that their habitat is very small.

In this sense, Succumex.com is dedicated to producing and taking care of this type of plants. When one arrives to the flower and plant fair, the beauty of these plants catches one’s attention immediately. People ask and purchase their favorite.

Succumex.com is also in charge of the preservation of this endemic specie. Through its web site, it propagates information so that the upcoming visitors know that all succulent plants have an official permit to be commercialized and produced. All succulent plants come from botanic gardens, greenhouses or nurseries which have their SEMARNAT UMA registration up to date, depending on each plant.

Lastly, succusmex.com upholds the Behavior Code stipulated by the IOS (International Organization for Succulent Plant Study). The code states the parameters for the commercialization of these plants.
 

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