pflanzen

There are some really great plants here. Like this one:

This is asiatic poke weed. It is extremely poisonous. And, it's growing on the sidewalk next to a little coffee shop in our neighborhood. There are nice things you can do with it though, like make purple dye. We haven't tried that though.

There is also this vine in our street:

I bet you know this one! There are lots of blossoms. It's too bad we didn't bring our brewing equipment with us. There are also linden trees, which I think are maybe the nicest trees ever. They have dark green leaves with silver undersides and pretty yellow flowers. I didn't take this picture:

I was talking about them with Gabriele, the Italian postdoc in my lab, and he said if you want green leaves with silver undersides you should plant olives. I admit they are tastier than linden.