Currently our balcony is quite colourful and quite green. Sadly, the gooseberry doesn't bear a SINGLE fruit this year, but I think I recall something where gooseberries often don't yield fruits in the first few years. So it might be normal...

( In turn you'll get pics of a Gloriosa superba )

Last month: Full attendence! Yeah ( Read more... )

A few years ago my mom imported a smaller hibiscus twig from Cyprus (i.e. she uhm... suddenly... found the twig lying on the ground and decided to bring the poor one back home to Germany with her ^^;;)

We carried it around in the living room, trying to find a spot with good light, but uhm...
It looks like a very normal hibiscus! 

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I think I've mentioned it last year, that I got a BIG batch of SERAMIS products for free - and this year Carsten was lucky ( Read more... )

The Hibiscus I inherited from my grandmother (or rather its offspring) is ready for spring :-)


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Maybe a year ago I started growing my (back then) one orchid in Seramis.
It's doing very,  very fine :-)


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*points at title of this post* My Spanish is fantastic. Not _._

Learning Spanish with "テレビでスペイン語" is just as questionable as it sounds, especially if your Japanese is poor. BUT! the show has Tsubasa, which makes it valid to learn Spanish this way ^^;;;

To distract you from my language advantures, I'll give you flower pics ( under the cut )

You remember when I mentioned the orchid project?
My first plant has opened it's first blossom. It's alive again! *.*


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You know Seramis? (At least I'm sure all German on my f-list should know it ( Read more... )