The thing I like most with the Urban Jungle Bloggers topics is that they challenge me to try something new. Like with the previous New Beginnings topic where I grew even more cuttings in laboratorium glassware. And today's Tropicool topic is no exception! Tropicool to me means wavy palmtrees, cocktails, tropical fruits like pineapple and Read article…
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Urban Jungle Bloggers #35
New beginnings is the Urban Jungle Bloggers topic for this Spring season. And it couldn't be more appropriate with all my plants awakening from hibernation. One of my Euphorbia is growing new stems, the Begonia are growing new leaves every day, the giant Opuntia in the greenhouse is expanding with 37 new ears. Lots of Read article…
Le Refuge by Marc Ange in Milan
Marc Ange's pink day bed, called Le Refuge, was probably the most Instagrammed place in Milan during Design Week. I loved it so much that I also posted a picture, which instantly became my most liked picture ever. It features laser-cut steel pink leaves, a cosy mattress. Together with the blue sky and amazing shadowplay, Read article…
One million cactus plants
As you know, cacti are my absolute favorite plants… (together with palm trees of course!!). If you're like me and live in a place where cacti don't grow everywhere, there are several places where you can go to admire cactus plants. Your local botanical garden is a good start. In Paris, for example, we have Read article…
Take Time for Spring!
Spring is here! Years ago when we were in the middle of the renovation and didn't have proper heating, I always felt like I could finally heave a sigh of relief: we survived winter! There was still a risk of cold weather in April, but sunshine and warmth were coming. Now that the days of Read article…
Lovely Day Botanicals
Whenever I burn my skin, I break off a leaf of one of my Aloë plants and apply the aloë gel to my skin. It's effective and has an immediate calming effect. Plants and botanical essences have proven their virtues in past centuries and continue to do so today. But ever so often, natural ingredients Read article…
The Botanic Garden in Berlin
It just started snowing here at home in France, while I was looking forward to a weekend of sunshine. Well that's the mysterious ways of nature 😉 Anyway, I wanted to show you one of the sunny places I visited in September last year: the botanical garden in Berlin. At the time there was a Read article…
A bloomifique plantshelfie
As much as I like flowers, I love houseplants so much better. In a previous Urban Jungle Bloggers topic we had a plants & flowers challenge and I remember is was really nice to figure out how to use both flowers and plants in one setting. With flowers you get to play with a wider Read article…
A mini jungle with Bergamotte
Where do you buy your plants? Have you ever bought plants online? It's always a bit of a suspense, right? Depending on where the plants come from: will they survive the trip? What will they look like? Are they carefully wrapped? When ordering flowers or plants at Bergamotte there is no suspense. Here in France Read article…
Oerwoud plant shop in Den Bosch
It's a smallllll world, it's a small after all! ♫ A while ago I visited a new plantshop in my hometown the city where I was born in Holland, called Oerwoud, Dutch for "jungle". That in itself is already pretty "it's a small world", right? But when talking to one of Oerwoud's owners Bregje and Read article…
