While driving through an area of Limassol yesterday we passed by a nursery that I thought had closed down some time ago. However, seeing that the gates were open we decided to take a look. This particular nursery had specialized in the more exotic trees and shrubs until, unfortunately the owner became seriously ill and passed away. The young lady we found there turned out to be his daughter who was trying to keep the remaining plants alive and to find homes for them. It seems that he used to source the majority of his plants from Indonesia and the last container to arrive from there had been in 2006. Despite the young lady's heroic efforts most of the plants were in a rather sorry state and she was desperate to find anyone to take them off her hands. Eventually we agreed to take charge of the African Tulip Tree shown in the photo that she wanted just 5 euros for. Although we have quite a large property (around 2,600 square metres) most of it already has mature, or maturing, trees in all available spaces. I have no idea what I'm going to do with something that has the potential to grow as large as this can but we felt sorry for the poor girl, and for the tree.