about the blog thing! It’s much easier and faster to write something here than to make changes to my webpage so I’ll post it here while the enthusiasm about the growing green things is still fresh.

I had to prepare my plants for our two-week holiday today, and used this opportunity to repot some of them. The Dracaena saplings surely needed a new home, and I put two of them together with a violet flower into a bowl, which makes a nice arrangement. The third, top one was brought back home and now lives at the foot of its parent. The parent in the meantime has made three new sprouts: one at the foot of the stem and two at the top near the cutting site.

The “Mother-in-law’s tongue — a very unfitting name for this beautiful plant, really — is flowering! The flowers have a very intense, sweet smell. They’re green and inconspicious and I would have overlooked them if I hadn’t had to move the plant. We took some very nice pictures which I will present on my web page later.

The pineapple outgrew its pod for the first time – it’s like moving out from one’s parents and I (as the parent) am very proud she made it.

The Schefflera is doing fine, some very long roots. This is also a self-grown sapling. The mother was huge and full of lice and since I didn’t succeed in killing the lice I decided to kill the plant instead. Thankfully the sapling didn’t inherit any of the lice.