Further evidence

of the OH's green fingers.

Here are pictures taken two days ago of his coffee plant, which is in flower and also producing a few beans. 

He's very proud of the fact that it flowered last year at only four, when they generally don't do that until their fifth year. Of course it may have been a year old plant when he bought it. Even so, to get a coffee plant to flower and fruit in Orkney is no mean feat. Not sure what we will do with the beans!

The poinsettia also continues to thrive and put on more red bracts. 

On the other hand, the apricot tree, which he grew over several years from a stone, has died a death, and is scheduled for disposal at the weekend when we are planning to 'bottom'* the sunroom, where it is currently lurking as a memento mori.

*An old Yorkshire phrase meaning to give a good sorting out to.