Saturday, July 27, 2013

Prepodesma's late flower

Well, this week I started my new job. :) 
I'm doing something completely different from what I did before and it's all still odd and sometimes frustrating but I hope I can learn quickly. The office is 1,5 hours away (by bus), in a different country actually. It's a strange thought that I'm crossing the border two times a day going from Germany to Luxembourg and back. But this way me and my plants don't have to move just yet, and even if we do I'd only change appartments, not the town. Going from 4 to 40 working hours a week is also something yet to get accustomed to. 
To celebrate my first weekend as a person with a job the Prepodesma orpenii opened its flower yesterday at 7 pm: intense yellow color with reddish tips.


When I think about it, Mesembs flowers are quite job-friendly, opening in the evening like this for us to enjoy. Another reason to grow them.

4 comments:

  1. Congrats, Rika! Wish you to adapt yourself quickly on a new job. The flower is nice )

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    1. Thanks Eugine!
      I'm slowly getting the hang out of the work. It's a very new field to me and I'm learning a lot every day. Tough though.

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  2. Congratulations on your new job. I hope it is going well. As always I find your blogs informative and interesting and I'm greatly appreciative of the efforts that go into them. I've learned much over the past three months. Thank you.

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    1. Thank you very much for your kind words. I'm learning from the plants :)
      I'm really happy you like my blog. Hope more people will start growing mesembs if they know it's possible on a windowsill. There are many empty south windows out there and people saying "I can't grow anything there, it all burns in the sun". Some plants clearly don't ;)

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