A few Plant-y Presents for Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a great start to the New Year, first of all!

I hope everyone had a few joyous days during the holidays and has a fun celebration planned for New Year's Eve! I will be getting together at a work friend's house and celebrating with a few people. Christmas was also spent with a good friend's family in typical German style (they celebrate on the 24th over here) - first off tortes and cookies with tea and coffee, then unwrapping gifts, then oil fondue with a few kinds of meat and a variety of vegetable salads and delicious dips. On the 2 official days of Christmas (25th and 26th) I, of course, had to work! So it is! :)

Aaannnyway, my plants here indoors have produced a few surprises in the past few days, so I hope you enjoy the following pictures as well as the remaining few days this year!

My tea plant is blooming! Was NOT expecting that! I think some extra
water and the heat turned on a bit more often did the trick.

After months of growing, a few jalapenos turned RED! Was also not expecting that. I ate one the other day which was very flavorful - it was half red, half green. I guess once again the warm climate indoors caused the change. Still yummy!

This is a new plant added to my collection, the poinsettia (or "christmas star" as they'd say here).
This was a gift this holiday season.