Now it's been exactly 2 month and today I'm moving my plants indoors again. On the first picture here in the plants haven't been watered for a month (the bigger pots for more than a month) so they already rested a bit before ... I guess it should be enough now. I'm anxious to see which of them will bloom for me again and how many leaves they will produce this time. First I'll leave them on the heated windowsill, once the first leaf has emerged they'll be watered slightly from below. When the flowering bud has emerged fully from the bulb they'll again get a good gulp. All right, I'm off to the friends cellar, another friend of mine helps me with his car. They all think I'm crazy but that's nothing new ;)

Are you fertilizing regularly? My habenaro has 8-12 flower sets and 2 peppers growing on it right now. We had a very hot spring (No rain from May to middle of June) with temps up to 28c, which is very unusual for us here on the west coast. All I have been doing is feeding once every week or two with a 15-30-15 flowering fertilizer (diluted to about 1/2). I also have used seaweed fertilizer a few times (as I have heard this helps improve the flavour since I grow my peppers and tomatoes in soil-less potting mix).

The Best site for organizing tips is organizedhome.com because the printables are free and useful.The best website for buying books on the subject is half.com because its a thrifty way to go in buying books.As far as supplies.I think school supplies and New Years sales art your local discount stores are your best bet.I don't think once you take shipping into account that any place is a good idea to buy mail order.Unless you have the money to spend and want pretty baskets and wooden organizers. Just my opinion :) Heidi S~

interesting topic...i work in several capacities in tv and print production. depending on the budget, i am sometimes styling things. here's my two cents worth: as for tips, there are so many different approaches, depending on what the point of the picture is, but i will do my best to lay out the things we address no matter what. 1)the first thing i think about is color. how can i bring this color all the way through the shot? fresh flowers in colors that pick up your accent colors. books and magazines in your accent colors. 2)lighting-- accent lighting, uplights, dimmers, warm bulbs. the makeover rooms you see on tv are always lit really dramatically, with professional lights. after the crew take the lights down, the room has lost some of its pop. you can recreate this to a degree with careful attention to lighting. 3) dramatic plant (usually palm or bamboo) with uplight for shadows. 4) as someone mentioned here, layers...everything is layered in color and texture. 5) mood. props are chosen to create the overall mood of the room.in our own homes, we live in these rooms so moods/purpose of the room shifts with the needs of the family. 6) large props (such as floral arrangement, bigger is better for drama) or groups of collections cleanly placed, with no surrounding clutter. 7) reflective/glowing surfaces, but no stark white things in foreground. mirrors to reflect light from opposite window or chandelier. 8) in photo shoots and sometimes in tv, we have the luxury of selecting the shot. we have full editorial decision over what angle the viewer will see it from and where we will crop the image, so we can pick the foreground and background carefully. good shot composition has a focal point and leads the eye somewhere definite. color that leads the eye from left to right around the room, landing spots for the eye and an invitation to enter and explore (focal point, obscuring full view but leaving enough to draw eye forward). 9) photoshop a great background out of the windows. take out anything that doesn't work. change rain to sunshine in bg. etc. What is really interesting to me is that i also spent some time as a designer for custom homes (home designs, not interior design) and the same principles were employed in that line of work. Sarah Susankah's books talk a lot about the ideas of light and focal points, but with a practical bent. i find it so amazing that i can see exactly what to do for others or on set, but in my own home, it takes me years to make up my mind about a darn wall color. perhaps that goes to purpose-- at work i know what the point of the shot is, but at home, the point of the room is always changing and i need it to be so much more than perfect at one moment. i also think i get used to seeing things at home and overlook all of the tings that would horrify me if i saw them on set. maybe that is why seeing pictures of our rooms can be so helpful. furniture placement is always the killer for me. it's so much easier on a set, when you have been preparing for one shot for two weeks and you can clear everything that doesn't work out of the room. and you have a talented crew who can make anything you dream up happen!