magnolia, magnoliae

one of the best things of spring here around - and already fading away...

fake plastic flowers

it's really been a lot i've had these cut flowers in a vase. weeks. i got them in mid september, and now, i mean now they're starting to fade! so i was wondering, are they really organic stuff, or just some chemical fake flowerish... whatever??
i mean, i don't often buy flowers myself, but this reminds me to point out there are flowers from fair trade, yeah! check it out ---> fairflowers

A green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out...

dying plant II or: cochineals

apparently i found out my plant and the neighbouring ones have been infected by some ugly form of insects called cochineals... which you can try to kill with a natural remedy, i.e. a very concentrated solution of marseille soap and water. i thought it might turn useful for people, so i wrote it down, even though it's full of posts and stuff all over the internet telling you how to deal with these white little devils.
so, i tried it on, let's see what happens now. too bad i had a raptus a couple of days ago, before i found out this remedy, and cut away a lot of branches. hope they survive this huge amount of torture...

dying plant

here is my dying plant. don't really know what to do with it. anybody has a clue??
thus far i just quarantined it, but i fear the white filamentary stuff has already spread to the other babies... :(









maybe i go look for some bio-blog...