Pomelo & Co.

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Time for some boring, utmost boring garden pics.

Pomelo. Our first pomelo. I dared to pick it up yesterday.

And it was so light, I was pretty sure that it had been hanging far

too long in that tiny pomelo tree. Maybe it was already dry?

On the contrary! This morning we enjoyed these halves.

So tasty, a bit bitter, very juicy - just perfect!

Detail. 

And guess what? There are two more pomelos hanging there,

in this "tree" which is now many 80cm tall, after all these years.

Der Name Pomelo wird in verschiedenen Sprachen mit leicht 

verschiedener Bedeutung verwendet. Im Englischen steht pomelo 

für Pampelmusen einschließlich Pomelos, im Französischen 

für Grapefruits, und im Spanischen für Grapefruits und 

Pampelmusen einschließlich Pomelos. 

Pampelmusen?

Leute, mein Lieblingslied vom Stereo Total: "Zu schön für dich"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fvUDglZ8ec

Stereo Total is a Berlin-based multilingual, French-German duo comprising 

Françoise Cactus (born Françoise Van Hove and formerly co-leader of the 

West Berlin band Les Lolitas) and Brezel ('pretzel') Göring (aka Friedrich 

von Finsterwalde, born Friedrich Ziegler, ex-Haunted Henschel, Sigmund 

Freud Experience). Both Cactus and Göring sing and play multiple 

instruments. When they appear on stage as a duo, Cactus frequently plays 

drums while Göring plays guitar and synth. (Wikipedia)

Yes, I have seen them live a couple of times in Frankfurt.

Gray November?

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This week I have three round birthdays in my calendar!

Congrats to all:

how funny to turn 20 in the year 20 - Annie!

Vollie maybe celebrates his 60th with his family.

It kind is a bit sad to turn 50 in the corona year,

no party, no celebration - but Kirrie will have some action

on her round day, for sure. Girls just wanna have fun. 

I tell you, no parties, no fun in Germany.

Well, hardly anywhere in the world this year.

So let's enjoy the nature.

Here some boring garden pics.

Take me home, country road ... tra la la la laa.

My pomelos are getting ripe.

A rose with a fly. Many flies in the house.

This year finally testing these, let's see what happens in winter.

My "mano de Buddha" is also changing colour,

meaning it's ripening as well.

Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, or the fingered citron,  is an unusually 

shaped citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections, 

resembling those seen on representations of Buddha. (Wiki)

Every now and then mushrooms.

Pomegranate explosion!

Nispero - Mispelchen.

Eriobotrya japonica

Flowers now, fruit to be enjoyed in April.

The flowers of this strawberry bush remind me of lingonberry flowers.

This climbing beauty is not really liked here as it takes over everything.

Remember these flowers from my May postings?

It's the Acca tree.

Acca sellowiana

Now we get the fruit!

I like it, the structure is similar to a pear and the taste?

Dunno. But it tastes good.

Wikipedia has more information:

The fruit, known as feijoa maturing in autumn, is green, ellipsoid, and 

about the size of a chicken egg. It has a sweet, aromatic flavour, which

 tastes like pineapple, apple, and mint. The flesh is juicy and is divided into a 

clear, gelatinous seed pulp and a firmer, slightly granular, opaque flesh nearer 

the skin. The fruit falls to the ground when ripe and at its fullest flavour, 

but it may be picked from the tree prior to falling to prevent bruising.

Kunst.

Or; what is left over in a salad bowl .

Was a nice vinaigrette with herbs from our garden.