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My lovely lemon tree!

Last year my lemon plant gave me a single delicious lemon, so I was super excited and tentative when it made five lemons all in one go! I wasn't even sure that a plant in a pot could sustain so much fruit, but luckily I have both supermarket fertiliser and my special supply of pigeon-poop-water, lovingly provided by my pigeons, which I'm sure is the secret ingredient!

I've had to fight mealybugs the whole time, I think they've taken hold even though I don't see them very often - but when I do, they go squish! One of the lemons developed a defect in the super early stages of growth, so I knew to expect at least one imperfect lemon, but to be honest, it wasn't as bad as I thought! I only picked two for now, since they can stay on the tree for a bit.

I think this time they were more sour than last time? But still delicious! I love that I've gotten 6 lemons from my tree so far, I'm hoping this will be an annual thing, but I'm not the best with plants so we'll see!

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New computer, table, and accessories coming along nicely!

Finally, a super powered computer! And here's me giving terrarium making a go after not having made any since living in Adelaide.

I'd found an elkhorn fern, but then later i found a bigger one for cheaper so now I have two?! And I wanted a ferny-fern and it was the perfect time to bring out an old jar I'd kept. I underestimated the size of the fern so it's too big for the jar, but it still looks good!

I really am going to become a crazy plant lady...

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Houseplant family photo

I hope the elephant ear plant is okay, I only bought it a couple of weeks ago and it's dropping leaves faster than it's sprouting them. I attribute it to transplant shock, so we'll see if it recovers.

My ZZ plant is really not doing well though. One of the two stems is dead, so I figure if it's diseased, the second one is also dead. If they don't do anything I might need to just count it as a loss and start again (with a more developed plant; I deliberately bought the baby version but now I'm thinking it wasn't such a good idea, and right now the shops have bigger ones).

Good news is, the lemon plant I bought dropped its first set of baby leaves, but now it's growing more leaves, so I think it's recovered from transplant shock and also now it's used to the windy and sunny conditions on my balcony :D

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