If you are interrested i would post from time to time some pics from my region and from the region my mother (northern Italy) come from.

Here an old trachy, (70 years) in Mainz:
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/5586305DE57F86E50000000000000000.jpg

Magnolia grand. in oppenheim
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/829D8C1B176428EB0000000000000000.jpg

Pinus pinea in bonn:
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/C33F91D8ED07F9B30000000000000000.jpg

Bouganvillea glabra, frozed back but comes out new in spring:
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/B0357F2CBC8B03B20000000000000000.jpg

Stuttgart:
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/E85AC0FB773C96970000000000000000.jpg

Passau: Ficus Carica:
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/1B341237F2DC8FA30000000000000000.jpg

Cupressus sempervirens in Bavaria
http://exoten.dyndns.org/picsNew/02941B49C74C7AC70000000000000000.jpg

Bye