Our Adventures in Japan

Yesterday was excited to notice a nub coming out at the bottom of aloe and one from the center will need to remember to bring aloe indoors t...

back in March   aloe looked like this   now... not sure what happened but I’m pretty happy aloe is green now and I think it is getting bigge...

the other day, I confirmed that the feathery one ...   comes to check on the bugs though I also think it might be one of our ancestors in an...

Remember the aloe I brought back from Shimoda Well, it hasn't rooted... So I tried putting it in some water Barely touching because that...

New leaves coming in on the Blood Orange (as well as the freesia bulbs that are in this pot)... Cyclamen's leaves are coming in too As w...

Thought I’d show you the blood orange tree. Last year  This year Was looking online and hope our new friends are not invasive butterflies  ...

I brought my plants indoors to ride out typhoon #10 (Shanshan). Oh and as of today, we are still waiting for the typhoon to weaken and get d...

thankful the cyclamen is blooming this year. was scared it wouldn’t recover after the building renovation the other year we'll have fre...

cyclamen leaves coming in hopefully it will flower next March  blood orange looks to be doing well, I think there were also some freesia bul...

Tuesday, the weather was rainy and windy. So windy, I thought we were in the midst of a typhoon. Wednesday was Hinamatsuri (Girl's Day)....

About 2 years ago, we tried snack pine . The other day, I bought another one called Bogor Pineapple, which was grown in Okinawa. This ti...

Satoshi's bonsai looks to be doing well. He keeps asking me if I watered it when I water my plants, but I keep telling him that it is ...

Hiiragi Nanten (Mahonia japonica) is a plant that we have in front of our apartment building. The yellow flowers have a fragrance that kin...

So far, these are the only plants left on my lanai. The tropical ones...because we get the afternoon sun and it was blazing this summer......

Dahlia not doing too well. With the funky weather, hot cold muggy...the plants seem to have dried up... Hope both will revive...but it d...

When I hear the word hydroponics, usually lettuce comes to mind. So, I was pleasantly surprised to find hydroponic blueberries at the mark...

So glad the weather dude's forecast turned out to be wrong. Looks like we'll have some sun until the end of the week and part of t...