What I made, by Sharon

I've written before about my balcony garden and how much I love it. It's spring right now and all the plants are thriving, inside and outside. Leon bought me a plant-stand for my Monstera and it sits there, growing enormous and making me happy every-time I see it. I am not shy about having giant trees inside. we have a pretty minimalist house, without much extra furniture, or paintings, or photos around. instead, we have plants. When Edible Houseplants by Laurelyn G. Martin came up on Netgalley I was intrigued. The subheading is  Grow Your Own Citrus, Coffee, Vanilla, and 43 Other Tasty Tropical Plants   and this books tells you how to grow and care for all these plants, in pots.  It also provides recipes and other ideas what you can use the produce for. It's quite inspiring, and I'd quite like to grow my own coffee and vanilla, to go with the lemons, bay leaves, rosemary and other herbs I already grow. This book is a good general guide and would make a lovely gift...

I finished the Exp test knit last Sunday, blocked it immediately, wore it to work twice last week, got photos on Friday and  am finally sitting down to tell you about it now. I meant to do it yesterday, but on Saturday Leon and I went to Elise's house for dinner before we went to a show and as we were walking down her street I found an abandoned Yukka plant. It was healthy, someone had clearly taken it out of it's pot and just dumped it. Elise told me that if I wanted it I should take it. On Sunday we caught the tram back to Elise's and while we were picking up the Yukka she gave me a Monstera that she propagated for me.  We caught the tram to the pub with the plants, had lunch and a couple of beers. Luckily we were in a plant filled beer garden and no-one asked about our BYO plant situation! When we got home I did more balcony gardening and got my hands busy trying to keep up with the Stephen West MKAL .  So, this jumper was quite fun to knit, but if I was to knit ...