So, I would like to start as usual by thanking the organizers for inviting me here. It's a great place to be again, not great weather, unfortunately, this week, but hopefully we'll improve later. I will try to give a brief, the main part of this talk is about a recent experiment we did with the Google USB group improving MBL physics in superconducting qubits. And the idea is to use interacting photons as the main player here. So I will give a brief review of what interacting photons for quantum simulations are, and then I will get into the main part. This is the team, some of them are here, this is Jiravat, was mainly involved in this project on Jamfeng, they are sitting somewhere there, two of my students, and Victor, which is not here, he was also involved. And I would also like to thank the Google guys for the experimental part. Okay, so experimental quantum simulations, I mean state of the art and problems. We had this morning talks about ultra-cold atoms, it's one of the most popular platforms. Beautiful physics have been checked there in the sense of quantum phase transitions, both hybrid models, semi-hybrid models. Then there is the linear optics setups where people have been looking at topological physics and also application both assembling and chemistry. Of course, ion traps for ideal for digital quantum simulation and also quantum magnetism. And superconducting qubits is another platform which I would mainly focus on, like the theory things I'll be talking about. You have a kind of a picture in your head would be in these kind of setups.  Most of the experiments unfortunately go down here, but we have the issues of decoherence and interaction with the environment, but this is something that is especially the last few years has been shown that this might be possible to really do interesting physics somewhere here. So interacting photons. Interacting photons in this sense is maybe a hybrid between normal photons as we know them in linear optics and kind of the microwave version in superconducting qubits where you can get them really to strongly interact in a cavity QED or CQQD sense, as I will explain a little bit later. And if you want to look at it in some sort of a photon number versus interaction stress per photon diagram, this is where linear optics is and this is what we learn at school. Classical linear optics, again it's a big field for many years with many applications in technology as well. Quantum information and quantum science motivated the field of photon-photon quantum nonlinear optics. And the stuff I'll be talking about lying in this area, which is many body quantum nonlinear optics where we have high interaction strengths and large photon numbers as well. So an outlook of this talk, I will talk briefly how to engineer many body photonic states in quantum nonlinear setups for quantum simulation of in and out of equilibrium phases. I will briefly mention the tool we're using in this field, in this trade, it's open quantum systems approach, master equations, many body master equations, lots of numerics, especially in 1D, special network numerics. Then I will briefly mention the James Cummings Hubbard model as is known now, or the James Cummings Lattice model, and which is kind of generated out of this cavity QED arrays. I will mention what fractional quantum whole states of photons and I will mostly talk about this recent NBL stuff, many body localization. I won't have time to talk about slow light setups and quantum nonlinear optics setup based on Liedberg atoms, where you can do beautiful things like liquid photons, steering models, Wigner crystals, people in the audience that have been experts in this field, and I have no time either to talk about integrated optical systems for emulations, I wouldn't call it a quantum simulation of such, but they're interesting works. Okay, so strongly interacting photons, many body quantum nonlinear optics and quantum simulation. So as I mentioned, photons naturally do not interact, so it's kind of counterintuitive how one would think of them as the main player to simulate nature, condensed matter or even high energy physics, because they have no mass, they don't carry charge, and if you try to get two photons to talk to each other in low energies, it's almost impossible basically. So if you use a nonlinear material, then we have what's called the semi-classical regimes, you have some nonlinear effects, but again for that, for this optical care effect that is known in the field to be appreciable, you need to have billions, trillions of photons to work. If you want to get photons to interact in the quantum regime, you need to use a mediator, I don't know what's the mediator, it's an atom, but you need the photon as well to trap it and keep it for a long time in a, you know, localized in space. One way to do that in cavity QED is to use two very good, high reflective mirrors. You stick your photon in here, it bounces back and forth many times, millions of times, every time it goes through the atom, it interacts a little bit. So if the coherent interaction between the atom and the photon is larger than the loss, the times that the photon gets lost from the cavity or gets escaped, you just put the emission outside, then you are in what we call the strong coupling regime. Strong coupling regime is a very fundamental regime to do quantum technologies with light matter systems. It has been achieved in different platforms, the ones I've been talking about here is mainly for conducting qubits. So let's do a little bit more on the maths of this model. So you have the bosonic field of the photon operator in this language, which just describes one photon trapped into this cavity of the two mirrors. It has some frequency, the atom is in here, and you have the atom photon interaction, which is called, this is the James Cummings model. This is a very fundamental model in cavity QED and quantum optics. If you diagonalize this, you see you have the eigen energies dependent on the photon and this plus minus the coupling and the photon number. So as you go up, this is the ground state. This is the uncoupled states which correspond to E0 and G1, empty cavity, an atom excited or one photon at the ground state, and so on as you go up. Because of the interaction, these two states hybridize and you get these two eigen states. These are the real eigen states of the system now. I have ignored losses in this diagram. What losses do they broaden these levels? So if you are not in a strong coupling regime, you don't have this nice splitting. If you try to stick a photon in and kind of excite the system, you see that you have to be resonant with this transition from the ground state to what's called the one minus state. Now the second photon as it goes in, it will find a mismatch to the next available energy. That creates an effective non-linearity, a blockade effect. Like electron blockade, but now this is for photons. That's because of strong coupling. And this is the key behind this interacting photons for many-body simulations and many-body effects. So if you scale this up experimentally, how the systems look like in the microwave regime. This is a 15-site chip, the more recent one by Google. Most of my talk will be on the nine chip. You have 15 sites here, if you can count on each of them, you can model as a kind of a non-linear or cavity change-comics system. Now you can also do the same things in the optical regime, interfacing called atom of nanophotonics, and also in the ribbed, using ribbed atoms. Now, so assuming this is possible, let's try to build a model for this and see what kind of many-body physics we can do. You have some sort of lattice. Each of these lattice, these are the corresponding mirrors. As I said, they trap the light here, the photon, and you put your atomic interactions. Atoms can be superconducting artificial atoms or quantum dots in semiconductor. It could be different implementation. This is general at the moment. Then exploiting the photon blockade, maybe you can build some sort of lattice model or a James Cummings lattice model that has some sort of interesting ground states or many-body correlations. So the simplest Hamiltonian one can write, and this is what we did almost like exactly 10 years ago, was to take the James Cummings-Cabbage-GED type of Hamiltonian and just add a hopping term where photons can hope from one cabbage to the next. Basically, just from here to there and backwards. And you can write it in 2D or one-dimensional as well. Of course, one has to be careful here, because these are lossy systems. So what I say at the first part of the talk, I will ignore the losses. Then I will say, how do you can do driven dissipative simulations here? So by assuming a single two-level system, you write this Hamiltonian in its cavity. And then let's say we look at the ground state of this for a specific feeling fraction. So we put a few photons. Let's say we have 10 sites in one dimension. We put 10 photons. And then we diagonalize and we look at the ground state. And let's say we can change the hopping in this implementation actually. Usually in optical lattice, you change the hopping and the interaction. In our case, it's the detuning between the atom and the cavity. If you can detune, then the photon blockade becomes weaker and you have photons do not obey the photon blockade, where in the other regime, there is photon blockade in each of them. So at the photon blockade regime, if you look at the ground state, you have some sort of more like state, as you would expect, because photons are repelling each other. So if the repulsion is larger than the corresponding hopping, and you look at the fluctuations of what's this is the total number of excitations, atoms, and photons per side as a function of the detuning, you go via what's called something that looks like a phase transition and like a quantum phase transition. So that was kind of a preliminary observation back at 10 years ago, which kind of indicated that maybe we can do many metaphixes with interacting photons. If you go to two dimensions and you do the corresponding mean field theory, then you have the similar structure as in the Bose-Habbath model, where you have more lobes for specific field infractions with the extra ability that you can have the detuning as an extra dimension here. The detuning between the atom and the light, because the excitations here is what's what we're calling in cavity QD, dress states or atom photon excitations. So you can play with the nature of the excitations, be more atomic or more photonic, and have richer structures and interface diagrams out of equilibrium. Now, of course, if you can do that, then you can do spin models. You can simulate interesting generalized spin models, even in 2D in theory. All this is theory at the moment. So all you can do two-dimensional gauge fields by having two-dimensional cavity arrays somehow constructed where you can, as the photons hop around, they can pick up a non-trivial phase and implement a gauge field or a quantum whole state of light. I don't have time to go through the details of this. Perhaps we'll talk about it later. Experimentally, where this field is, so if you take recently, this is two years ago, this is just a unit cell, free of superconducting sites in this case, then by modulating the hopping elements between the photons between these three sites in time, this slightly different than the previous implementation here, which we modulate the laser phases, then you can create chiral states of photons that circulate around basically in this fundamental unit. In principle, it could be scaled up and do more larger site kind of quantum whole physics. And I will end with this first introductory part and say that although there are complementary advantages of using photons to do many body physics at the ground state and closed systems, ideally, this is an open system. By default, it's an open system. So ideally, we would like to look at driven dissipative and out-of-equilibrium phenomena. This is where it's real set would be. And this is where the field is really the last few years where you have drive, you have losses, and you look at out-of-equilibrium states, steady states. And it has been shown that you can get exotic states of exotic phases like photon crystallization or feminization beyond the expected by stability in this kind of systems. Experimentally, the most recent one is this 72 James Cummings Hubbard or cavity arrays model when you have, basically this is one dimension and each of these nodes correspond to a resonator with an artificial atom and transverse in this case. What these guys in Princeton did is they pumped from one side and they observed the dissipative phase transition in this 72 cavities lattice. There are more works in this direction, but I want to focus, as I said, on the NB also. Let me wrap up this part by saying that the richness of the system in out-of-equilibrium simulations is, except that it's naturally open, that you can play with the drives. You can have coherent drive in each of the lattice sites. You can have parametric drive where you pump in between and you have some sort of nonlinear processes that generate pairs of photons. Or you can have a weak, almost quantum or higher semi-classical driving situations. And then eventually what you need to do, you need to solve this massive mini-body master equation, which you have your Bose Hubbard physics here or the James Cummings Hubbard plus the dissipation from the atoms and the dissipation from the cavity. And look at either transit or steady-state physics. As I mentioned earlier, this is not the only way to go. You can have quantum nonlinear mini-body physics for photons in slow light setups and read back atoms. There have been experiments by various groups and also theory by people in the audience in doing interesting mini-body states here. I don't really have time on this, but it's also a nice system to do interesting sort and go-related states of light. So in summary, we have larger left scales of a law for efficient preparation, detection, and single-site addressing. This is something I should highlight compared to optical largescence that the cavities can be further apart. There is no optical wavelength limitation here. The state correlations are measured by using standard quantum optical techniques and driven dissipative nature is inherent here, so out of equilibrium should be doable. So to get into the second part, can we use the systems to do something beyond the ground state, like beyond what? Transitions or the steady-state physics. Can we do, like, the full spectrum? Can we look at mini-body localization, for example? So a brief introduction to MVL. So there is a fundamental assumption in statistical mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics, that all microstates associated with a given macro state have equal probability. And then this big ergodic hypothesis that says that the system, if it's ergodic, it explores all accessible microstates over time and I have a small, like, toy picture here, so you can see that in this case, you have breakdown of ergodicity in this kind of classical trajectory picture. The question is what happens when you really have quantum systems, interacting quantum systems? So the question was, if I have a closed mini-body quantum system, can it thermalize by its own without interacting with the outside? Or it doesn't. And when does it do it? Because quantum mechanics is unitary. If I start from a quantum state and I have unitary evolution, there is no reservoir, there's nothing outside, I will never thermalize. But if I look at the subsystem of the, of the, if I split my system into a smaller system and a bigger part, and I look at the local observables here, the local, the estimatrix, and I trace out, I use this reservoir, then I can, can I describe this as a thermal state? And when this hypothesis breaks down, which is also known as the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. This is a big question in quantum physics. We are not really quantum physics people in our group, but we wanted to check this from the interacting photos and quantum simulation perspective. And the story is the following. So, yes. So, I'm sorry, say again. How large is the system vision? Well, it can even be one particle actually, one site. So, now, pictorially how this looked like, the linear version of this, the easy, I mean not that easy. It took Anderson to solve it in 96-1, is that if you have non-interacting particles in a disorder lattice, then you can have what's called for large enough disorder and depends the dimension as well. In 3D, you have localized states, all like the states are localized. Now, it seems that this is true also for weak interactions, but where is really the limit when you put interaction? When do you go from a localization to the extended thermalized phase? So, in this kind of picture. Here's the localized phase and this is kind of the thermalized phase. And what are the implications in quantum information because we are talking about quantum many-body system, they're a massive system. So, if the system retains some memory, it doesn't really thermalize and then maybe we have a perfect quantum memory for example. So, but for that, you need to really look at the whole spectrum. So, it's a hard problem, specific for many-body physics. The recent experimental works in direction involved cold atoms, where they prepare some state and they look at the population in ballast. You put the atoms in half of the largest and you see how they spread. There's a line of works in theory and in using numerics trying to probe the problem, but remember this is exact diagonalization. We have to look at all the eigenstates, approximate methods do not work, so it's a hard problem. If you go beyond a few sites, it's a very difficult problem. So, what we tried here with the Google guys is we took the kind of older chip, now there's a 15 chip, this is the state of the art of, like at least publicly, nine sites. Now, instead of doing quantum computing, I mean, these guys look at this as qubits. We say, why don't you look at them as nonlinear harmonic oscillators? Because effectively the qubits are in the hardcore regime of a nonlinear harmonic oscillator. They really have microwave photons here in citations. So, you can write down a nice kind of boss-habo type of Hamiltonian with the frequency, the nonlinear part and the hopping. So, if you modulate the potential in a quasi-periodic sense, then you can actually, so that you can probe NBL physics here. And that's the last part. Before I get into that, I will explain how you do spectroscopy here. How do you really, because ideally we need to look at all the eigenstates, all the eigenspectrum. How do we extract the eigenspectrum here? The way to do it in this closed, very coherent system, we develop a kind of a novel method, kind of novel because it relates to early things in quantum mechanics, but nobody has really done it in this sense before. So, you have a many-body system.  That's how we extract the eigenfrequency, the eigenenergizes. But we need to do this quantum mechanically. So, you start with some initial state, side zero, you let the system evolve and we would like to get these energies out. And also corresponding approaches, how to do that. So, let's look at some examples. So, you have the state it evolves. You want to calculate some sort of observables and follow the time evolution. If you can choose the right initial states, if you don't have for a general initial state, there will be energy differences here. So, if I have this experimentally somehow and I do it for you to transform, I get energy differences. How can I fix this kind of reference and get absolute energies and do my spectroscopy? The key for that is to choose your initial states cleverly. And as an example, this is a toy example, but just to illustrate the method, just two side-tied binding models you have hopping. And these are the operators that you measured. You could measure in an experiment. This is the initial states. If you put this in a cell state, you see the expectation value oscillates with a frequency difference. That's not good. This one is zero. It's not good. If you take this state with the superposition of the first tube bit or a first oscillator, then you see that for this one, again, you get energy difference, but for this one, you get absolute energies. So, if I have this expectation value somehow in my experiment, then I have the spectrum. This is kind of a toy example, but it was the same in the main body case. So, the protocol is the following. You have your lattice. This is the main body spectroscopy kind of part. You start, you put, let's say, one photon in the first side. You let it evolve. You do all your measurements. In this case, the operators look like a dagger plus a, this kind of quadrature operators. Then you put it in another side. You do the same. And you calculate as a function of time, you calculate the Fourier spectrum as in here, and you extract the eigeneresis. So, if you do this for this nine-side chip, what you get experimentally, you get this kind of picture of this. The first qubit, this is the ninth qubit, and this is basically where the corresponding resonances are, and this is where, how big the corresponding amplitude is. So, by superposing all this, we get one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, nine eigenenergizes. This is one photon, one particle in nine sides. So, we should get nine energies. That's exactly what we get in the experiment. Now, so it works, basically, and so on. If you put the interactions, again, it's a similar process. Now, to benchmark this, and see how good this spectroscopy method is, we decided in the linear physics, this is before we put the interaction, to try something kind of exciting and maybe non-trivial, which is the Harper model, or the butterfly Hamiltonian. In two-dimensional quantum-hole physics, we know that the corresponding spectrum looks like this famous butterfly as a function of the magnetic field. You can do similar physics by projecting this 2D into one-dimension, it's called the Harper model, where the magnetic field appears in the modulation of the lattice. So, I'll skip the mapping, but it's also the spectrum. So, this is the energy, this is the magnetic field. If you run it for 100 sides, you get the famous butterfly. Now, if you, we have nine sides. So, it's not really, it's a baby butterfly, in a sense, but still it looks like a butterfly. You have the head, this is the theoretical prediction, the tail and the wings. Doing the photon protocol, putting the photons then evolving and doing the spectroscopy, we get this. So, you get the Fourier amplitudes here. So, you get actually pretty close to a butterfly. So, the method works, the spectroscopy method works. If you look at the arrows, this is a mega-heads. I mean, this is slightly higher because of some systematic error in the experiment, but in general, it's pretty close to the theory. So, that's linear physics. To do interactions, really doing the main thing, you take the same Hamiltonian now, this one-dimensional Hamiltonian, we put the photon in the side, we let it evolve, et cetera, et cetera. But now, to do interactions, you need to put two photons or three photons to really access the interacting angle states. And the Hamiltonian we chose, is this obriod remodel with interactions. Why we chose the obriod remodel? Because we know, this is known for one dimension, where the ergodic phase and the localized phase are. So, if the disorder is smaller than 2j, then you have the ergodic, in the other case, you have the mnbl. So, we put now interactions and we checked how this breaks down and where, basically. And how do we do that? Because we have all the eigenstates. In this case, they're around, it's less than 100, so we can resolve them for the nine sides. And then we use, we do this participation ratio and we want to distinguish between, what's called the Galussian orthogonal ensemble, where you have the ergodic phase or the Poisson distribution, which is the localized phase. And this is the experimental result. Again, this is the Hamiltonian. You fix u over j at three and a half, which is reasonably large value. As you go up in the disorder, so this is zero disorder, as you go up, in the zero disorder, you have the embryo under the model and you have this, and you see how the GOE looks like. And as you increase, you go to Toro's Poisson distribution, which is shown here. Now, if you make cuts here, just to make this, remember for the linear case, delta by j2 is was there, the transition, but this is the interacting case. So, if you make a cut, then you get that these are the corresponding, the dotted lines are how they come from the Poisson and the GOE, and this is the experimental values on top. So, as we change between delta less than one to five over j, you go from a GOE to a Poisson distribution. And I just have like two minutes. That's not enough to check, I mean, the signature is there for the MBL, but we should actually look at the extent of the states, as well, because MBL says that the states, the eigen-energy in space, for example, if I take one and just pick any of the eigen-energy of the spectrum and I look how spread they are in the lattice site, I can calculate what's called the participation ratio for this, so PR space. The same thing I'm gonna do for the energy, which tells me, sorry, how many energy states are in each lattice site, and this is the reverse. One eigen-energy, how many lattice sites it goes. So, extracting again the eigen-energies from the spectroscopy, we did this and we saw the following. That, on this kind of the main result, that as you increase the disorder, you go from, this is the Obreon de Valle, and similar here, now here, we have the PR energy and this is the PR space. You have a kind of a two-photomobility edge as you increase the delta, first the edges go into the next phase, where the middle follows later on. And, okay, and the last slide is how efficient this method is in terms of really doing many body physics. As you increase the lattice sites, if you really want to extract the spectrum, at some point, the eigen-stands will get too close compared to your resolution, basically. And what's the resolution here? It's the coherence of the system. So, if you really have the thermodynamic limit, of course, everything fails, but the experiments are not really done in the thermodynamic limit. So, what we've done here, I mean, for 18 sites, which is twice as big, and keeping the same coherence time that the guys have in the Google chip, we've plotted the percentage of missing levels as a function of U and J, and we see that, so you get the maximum like 30% around here, but this is not too bad if you see how far the distribution that you get compared to the ideal distribution is. So, even at this kind of quite larger sites, which you have actually many, many levels that you miss, it will still work because at the end of statistics, what you're looking for. And I'm finished here. So, I hope I kind of gave you a taste of what one can do with interacting photons. You can look at the ground state physics. You can look at the full spectrum of many body models. You can do quantum physics. I didn't talk about this much. And I would like in the future to look more in the interface between topology interaction and disorder. Maybe look at, we're already looking at this, at flocade driving and independent stuff as we had in the morning as well by Dieter, and also hopefully try to get to test these proposals we have on the chips. And also we continue in this integrated chips and slow life stuff. So, I would like to thank the group again. And then we have openings as well. If anybody is interested, please write to me. Thank you.


And we're here with the UI Co. You're showing off the door-attached technology, and who are you? Hi, my name is Binay Bajaj, and I run business development and marketing at UI Co. Where we build next-generation touch-sensing technology for wearable and durable products. So right here, you have a development kit. So we have a development kit. This is a band-sized, watch-sized development kit based on our small devices. This goes into watches and bands, and I'm showing some of the watches here. So this is this band, which is the Garmin band. The algorithm can run on that part? So our algorithm is actually running on the silicon here, which is actually connected to the sensor, and then the silicon actually then sends data to the host over an I2C interface. What kind of silicon do you have there? It's a small chip. It's a small chip. It's one of our DTE 101 chip. We have four different products, DTE 101, 201, 401, and 301. And we are showing here many different products. So if you see, we have watch. It's a Garmin watch. Four-unner watch. And this is the mass production. This is on the market. This is the mass production. This is the hiking band mass production for the Chinese company called Hikling. Yeah. We have Garmin Edge, which is a three-inch screen. This is used for bike riders as a navigation device. You can put this on a bicycle? Yeah, you can actually put it on a bicycle. It works with gloves. You can actually do navigation on this. You can do pinch, touch, and zoom on the screen. So basically on the bicycle, it might rain. It might rain. It works with water. It works with gloves. We have shown many different demos where you can actually work really well in extreme weather conditions. We also want to show you. So when you're on a motorbike, you can actually use with gloves. Yes, you can actually use it with gloves. And I'll show you here. This is a Garmin chart blotter. Actually, it works really well with thick gloves where you can actually also spray water and gloves. And actually, it works with both of them. So I can spray water. And there's no false touches, as you can see. I can touch the screen without any problems showing. You can also touch the screen with gloves. And you see no problems. So water and gloves. So we do a lot of innovation in our sensing technologies, in our firmware algorithms. We also do sensor design very creatively and use the silicon in a way that all these three things when you put together, both glove touch, working with water, extreme rain conditions, extreme temperature. We are actually in markets like appliance, medical, off-road, agriculture market. We are in gas pump outside. We are doing many different things which are outdoorsy type of application. So what I'm there, it says all the markets you have off-highway appliance, automotive, all this stuff. And so basically, it's a software solution. It's software-based solution. A lot of the innovation is in the firmware algorithms. But I would say that it's a complete solution where we do a lot of work in the firmware, as well as in the sensor design, as well as how we utilize the silicon itself. So what's over here? So here we're showing a 4.3 inch dev kit with some of the integrated displays, AMOLED and PMOLED displays. This is the AMOLED 1.45 inch display. This is actually a round display. These are all integrated, touch is actually integrated into the display. Here we are showing a PMOLED display. This is a 0.96 inch. What is PMOLED? PMOLED is actually a passive matrix OLED. So it's actually used on some of these bands. The display is definitely for a very everyday consumer. Lower power, on bands, small screens. It's like a Garmin band, actually. It could also be used in something like this. Yeah, to our customers. And this is a very popular device, all these, right? So consumers are quite happy. Consumers are very excited because now bands and watches have become everyday use as you've seen. But the wearable technologies is no longer about just bands and watches. They're in coming in many different form factor, many different applications.  So do you have more and more connections here in Silicon Valley? More and more companies are considering this. We are actually seeing a lot of excitement for technology. Even at ID Tech here, the excitement has been very, very high. We've collected, we've met with many companies and we are just really, really busy here at UI phones. How about the smartphones? So smartphones, we are right now not playing because it's a very commoditized space. We definitely are thinking that we should play first in wearable, which is like an upcoming market. We have really established ourselves in the durable markets. One thing I also would like to show you is our surface touch. It's going to be right now. Right there. So one of the things that we're showing here is touch that is working with leather, touch that can work with fabric. This is very useful because as you do wearable devices, there are going to be devices where you actually are going to be body worn and your device could be under the fabric because it's leather or fabric or anything. What we're showing here is not only I can work touch through fabric, but I can actually touch through thick acrylic material. Here I'm showing I can do touch through leather. So I can actually touch through leather where I'm showing different button touch points. Here I'm touching through wood. And these are very critical for not only wearable, but also for automotive application where my touch could be behind the staining under leather or under the car seats or in any fancy designs which consist of wood. Are you talking here about touching e-textiles? Yes. Is this for e-textile business? Yes, it could be for any wearable fabric, non-conductive fabric material. Is this for touching your shirt? Yes, absolutely. This is for there? Yes. And this is for amazing architecture, maybe? Yes. So how do you start touching the furniture? Yes, you can, absolutely. And if you have touching material, we can work through wood furniture and the touch works there too. Because users might be quite surprised to see those kind of products come out. Users are very surprised. Today we had one lady who actually makes rugs and she was so excited. She wanted to actually put rugs where children play and the rugs which are interactive for kids. And she said that I actually like this. Can you actually make touch work for 0.5mm fabric? And I said this is actually 0.5mm fabric. And she said I would like to use the technology in fabric, in rugs, where it's an interactive fabric where rugs and kids can play. So you can just speed up and output more and more of your technology everywhere. That's right, yes. That's our goal. We want touch to be everywhere. Touch is actually getting everywhere. Not just smartphones, wearables, but also window screens on just everyday things in your house that we use today.


Hi guys, oh We're here with another my creative year of my muse video My muse is all over the freaking place. I Think I said the same thing last month, but it's still true this month. She's focused on picking up old Crafts that I used to do or that I haven't done in a long time Sewing being one of them. This is my So I've made myself quite a few tops in the last month and I have more designs that I want to work on in fact when I was at the fabric store I found this how cute is that and I think I found it Etsy pattern that I want to make that I make out of that so oh Oh Boy, so she's focused on sewing right now And I'm doing some resin tumblers a little bit of painting and journaling. I just did the really big paintings If you haven't seen them yet, I'll put a picture here somewhere if you want to see what I'm up to every day you can follow me on social media and the List for all the social media sites is in the link tree list of links, which is in the description below But yeah, she's really just all over the place. I've got a stack of patterns. I know, right? This is one I haven't made yet, but I'm gonna make I Love this this jacket right here It's so cute. I just have to find the right fabric I even Drafted a pattern of my own. That's something I haven't done in probably 20 years or more Good thing. I wasn't too rusty but It's fun exploring and dabbling in old art styles old craft styles and Also figuring out how I can incorporate them into painting and mixed media Which I'm also doing because as I'm I find as I'm working on the sewing I'm thinking of things I can do With the scraps which are right underneath the camera or to the side of the camera with with the scraps in my art journals, so You know One hand feeds the other right? So it's not always a Bad thing if your moves get sidetracked It's not always she sidetracked right now because I'm looking at the woods. That's not a good thing It's not always a bad thing let her explore where she needs to it's okay to put some things down for a while and Go explore something new and then go back to the other you'll go back with a refreshed outlook a new sense of purpose and new creative ideas on how To do things how to incorporate different things. It's not a bad thing So I give my muse as much free reign as I can and still just still Conduct art business Because I am in the business of art But I give her as much creative freedom as I can and still get the business part done That's not a bad thing right now. She's enjoying sewing next might be in some embroidery I'm gonna be doing something with those fabric scraps I've got the woven scraps and I've got a basket over there of knit scraps I got I have ideas people some of it involves more garment construction If that's something you'd like to see in a video future video. Let me know Yeah, I don't know let your let your muse do what she needs to Mine right now. She's really having a fun time with sewing It's crazy nuts I'm looking at indie pattern brands. I've found some good ones on Etsy. I will link below the Etsy shop and pattern that I just purchased to make That beef fabric out of I think it's gonna be really cute. I Don't know what what's yours doing? We're what weird things is your muse up to because mine's just I Think she's gone insane Anyway, if you would like to see what I'm up to and what she's inspiring me to do You can again you can click on that link tree list of links and all of my social media is there All of the places you can support the free content here and over on Facebook are also there Don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all go out and have a great day Let your muse wander if that's what she needs to do right now Do something nice for yourself and her and I'll see you later. Bye guys


Hi everyone, welcome back to Plants and Lucia. My name is Lucia and I'm so excited today because we're doing our first plant tour video ever in this channel. This video was requested many times, so I'm so excited to just welcome you to our home and show you our plants. Okay, come on in. Okay my friends, we're gonna start with this monstera right here. Her name is Lupita and it's the first plant that our guests see when they come to our home. She's very close to my heart because she was actually a gift for my 30th birthday from Jan. And she was 30 years old when she got here, so we basically have been the same amount of years on this planet, which is super cool. She's actually growing really, really quickly. We have some leaves actually coming out, so all of these ones are leaves that have been growing this year and we're actually having one leaf that is coming out right now. It's actually right here. I love seeing the way that she grows. She grows really fast. And yeah, so now we have one more new leaf. So welcome to our living room, which is right here. We actually spend lots of time here when we're relaxing. So I usually read my books here and we usually sit down here with Jan and we don't have a screen, so we put our laptop here and that's how we watch movies. So now you know a little bit more about ourselves. But I'm gonna show you this wall right here. This is actually my favorite wall in the house and this is because we can put so many plants as you can see. We have a lot of space to just play around with the plants and before I forget, actually, this room actually has a south facing window. So we have most of our plants here and you're gonna see that as we get closer to the window, we're gonna get closer to more succulents and more plants that really enjoy the sunlight. But these plants enjoy bright indirect sunlight. That's why they really like this room because they have their bright sunlight but they're away from the window, so it's not so strong. So let me show you what plants we have. So I'm gonna go on top of the couch here because it's a little bit high for me. This one is the first one that I wanted to show you. It's super cute and super easy to take care for. This is a blue star fern. And actually this plant doesn't need so much water and also the cool thing about it is that it also gets some of the nutrients and some of the things that they need, they get it from the air. So it's really easy to take care for. We just have to not overwater it. But yeah, then I'm gonna show you this one right here. This one is the asparagus fern. And you guys, this one has such a sense of calmness and I really love it. It's a plant that you would find maybe in a spa or something. And also it grows really, really fast and it's very easy to care for as well. And oh, one interesting thing about this plant is that actually it comes from a bigger asparagus fern. So we actually divided it in one video. You may remember the video. And this is the second part for one. So we divided it into two and it actually is growing really, really well. It has many new leaves here. For example, this one right here is a new leaf. You can tell by actually the color of the leaf. So it's maturing still. Whereas for example, this one is a little bit darker. Okay, so yeah, that's the asparagus fern right here. Here we have the maiden hair vine. So it's a beautiful plant you guys but I'm still trying to figure out the watering because I think that it needs more watering that I'm giving her but I don't want to overwater it. For example, here you can see there are some leaves that are dry. For example, right here. And yeah, I mean, it's good because now it looks better. It's growing some leaves on the top. It was a little bit dry here. As you can see, we have some branches here that are dry but it's doing better. So you know, these things go step by step and yeah, I'm learning about it. I'll give you an update as it continues to develop the situation. And if you have a maiden hair vine maybe you can tell me in the comments how much water do you give them and then we can learn them. But yeah, so that's the maiden hair vine here. Here we have another vine which is so beautiful and I really love it because it's so easy to take care for and also it's a beautiful plant. This is the English ivy. So as you can see, we have her in a macrame right here and I love the way it's growing. It looks almost like it is dancing, you know? And I think it's happy here because the levels of sunlight, she gets bright sunlight. This, the English ivy, as you may know, likes lower amounts of sunlight but this one is a variegated type. So I know that if we want to keep the variegation we need to provide some amount of sunlight. So this room is bright sunlight but it's very indirect as this is really farther away from the window. So yeah, this is a beautiful plant. Okay, so on this side of the wall we have many different plants as you can see. We have the Boston fern right here. This one you can have in a more shady room but it seems to be happy in this room. So I just have it really far away from the window. Then here we have the Android plant which I love so much because it almost looks like watercolors and leaves, no? I really like it. And we have the coffee plant right here and of course our Christmas cactus. And if you go over here, we have the zebra plant. Again, this plant doesn't need so much direct sunlight. So actually they prefer a little bit more indirect sunlight. So that's why I have it farther away from the window and we have the aloe vera here growing towards the sunlight as you can see but she seems to be happy there. One plant that I really wanted to show you is this one, I still don't know the name but this plant has surprised us this year because I'm gonna show you here. As you can see, it dried out actually. We didn't have any leaves so we had to cut the stems here but then I was like, okay let's just not throw it away let's just maybe water her and see how she does and now she has new leaves. But I would love to know the name so if you guys know the name for this one I'm also gonna put it on the Instagram account so you guys can also comment on that. But if you guys know the name, please let me know. So we can know more specifically what she likes and what she doesn't like. So now I'm gonna show you some of the plants that we have on this table right here. Of course we have the ZZ plant. If you're a plant beginner, I really recommend getting this plant for the first plant that you get because it's a super strong plant and it's very adaptable. You can actually be in a darker room or you can be in a bright room like this one. So yeah, I really love her and super recommendable. Then over here, we have the red love plant and it's very special plant because on the top you have a green color, very deep green color actually. And then in the back, it is red. So it's really, really beautiful. And it grows really fast actually. So I've been actually cutting some of the branches off just to propagate them. And the roots also grow really fast. So you can have many of these plants around the house as long as you have bright sunlight because they really like sunlight. And later I'm gonna show you in the propagation station how our propagations are doing. Then over here are actually the moon cactus. So as you can see they have different colors. This one's pink, this one is green with white. And I think they do well here because they like bright indirect sunlight. One thing to remember is that the top of the cactus here, they like more shade than light. And then this part of the cactus likes lots of sunlight. So one compromise is to provide bright indirect sunlight because if not, then you'll see that this one is gonna start losing its color with a lot of sunlight. So yeah. So now let's look at the other side of the room. And we're gonna go to this bookshelf right here. And actually this one's there right here first. This is the part of the beetle that we had to cut because of the aphids. So as you can see, it has some yellow leaves here or just the yellow edges or brown edges here. We think that it was because of the aphids. So we're trying to make her happier and treat her a little bit. So hopefully it'll be better. But yeah, this is another part of the beetle, the other part because it was really big. Still big, but yeah, it was a little bit of a, it was a sad moment when we had to cut it but we're trying to make her be happy and hopefully it'll be healthier. Then over here we have of course our air plant which is also growing really, really long. And here we have our potos. This is the silver potos. And it's really soft when you touch it. So it's a very soft land and very beautiful. This one tends to prefer less light than bright light. That's why I have it a little bit farther away and also protected by the bookshelf. The way it doesn't get so much sunlight. And we're also propagating some of these. So I'll show you when we get to the propagation station. And then over here we have more succulents on this side. So they're gonna get more sunlight. So we have this succulents right here, some cacti. Then we have the lithops right here, the living stone. And over here we have the bird's nest fern. This plant also grows really quickly. And I love it because actually it has many curves on the leaves. And it's so fun to actually look at the new leaves. As you can see, this one has a new leaf right here. So they actually grow from the center and then they own roll up to become these leaves. I think maybe, because as you can see here, we have some of brownness in the leaves. So it's either that we're over watering it or maybe we're over feeding it. So I'm gonna try to see what is gonna make her happier. And also here I can show you, here is one of the new leaves on rolling. So it looks like that. Here we have our orchid. It was actually a gift from the neighbors. And it doesn't have flowers anymore, but it seems to be doing well with the leaves. So we actually have some new leaf here coming out. So yeah. And over here, of course, we have our drastina plant. Some of you guys have actually told me that you guys have some brown edges on the leaves of the plant. This plant is super sensitive to chemicals in tap water. So I would recommend that you use either distilled water or rain water or filtered water. We've been using that and she seems to be doing fine. And she's croaking actually. We have some new leaves in the center right here. So yeah. Okay, so from here, we're actually walking towards where Yan works. This is his desk. Of course, yeah, with Corona now he's working from home. So we actually put some plants here. So he has some green in his face as well. This one is the other part of the asparagus plant that I told you that we divided. And this one is growing a little bit more chaotically, but it is growing as well. So it seems to be happy. And as we get closer to the window, you're starting to see plants that need more sunlight. So for example, here we have the croton. And as you can see, the croton has many colors on the leaves. We have, for example, yellow. We have red and orange. Once the croton starts getting more green leaves, this means that it's not getting so much sunlight. So I actually had this croton by the wall over there. And that's when it started growing these leaves. So that's why I moved him a little bit closer to the window. So now I can get more sunlight and hopefully we'll get the color back. As you can see, we have some red already on the center. So yeah, we'll see how it grows. Over here we have the Tradescantia. This is actually a cutting from a plant that was actually dying on us. So I cut it and put it in water. And it actually grew many roots. So now I transferred it to soil and it's growing more leaves here. So we'll see how it goes. But I'm so happy because look, here if you go really close here, you can see that this is another branch and a new small leaf is coming from the center. I don't know if you can see, but it's over there. So we'll see. We have our air plant here as well. And some of the succulents. This was growing like crazy. And actually one of you guys told me the name of this plant. I didn't know before. So thank you so much. Now I'm gonna add it in the video because I don't remember, but I remember that it starts with S. But I'll add it in the video so you guys know. And yeah, if you have one, please let me know. This one is actually super cool. It looks almost like an octopus, I think. And this is a new branch right here. Here. And of course, sunshine right here. This plant is super close to our hearts because it was a gift from a very close friend of ours and the name actually comes from her as well, just to honor her. And oh my God, guys, it's growing really fast. As you can see, it's super big right here. And I hope that it continues growing. So we will see. I also got a cutting from that and we have a video about it on how to propagate it. And I'll show you how the cutting is doing in a minute. But now we're gonna go closer to the window and see some of the plants that really like sunlight. So this one is a Sheflera plant and it was actually a gift from our previous landlord. She was living here before us and she just stayed with us. And now we have so many new leaves. For example, this one right here is actually a new one. It actually grows as an umbrella. The leaves come like that. So yeah, it's growing. I think it's growing very healthy now. So, and it's super tall, as you can see. So it just gives another personality to the room. Yeah, I really like this plant. Then over here, we actually have a Cenecio plant and this one I actually have on the other side of the room but then I noticed that it was growing like this. So it's towards the sunlight because they really like sunlight. So I decided to put it a little bit closer to the window and I think now she's gonna be happier. And talking about plants that love direct sunlight, let's go see our succulents in the dining room. Okay you guys, so we're very close to a south facing window here. So I hope the lighting is okay. But as you can see, we have many of our succulents here. This is because this really like direct sunlight. So this is a perfect window for them. And I wanted to show you some of the succulents that we have. Some of them I don't know the names but if you know any of the names of the succulents, just let me know in the comments and we can add them to our collection. And now the sunlight is coming in. So let's see. Here this one I wanted to show you. Let me just put this here. I wanted to show you because this was a cutting actually that we got from Greece. And it's so beautiful actually the way that it grows. It actually had two branches. The other one was growing from over here but I saw that some fungus was actually in the plant. So I had to cut it. But actually I just saw it because we're doing this video that new branches are coming in here. Which is so cool. Of course we have our bunny ears cactus here. This is a yellow bunny ears cactus. The first one that we had is our red one. And I'm gonna show you guys later. That one is in the kitchen. But this one here is a yellow one. And it's growing really fast actually. This is a new one for example. This is a new ear. And then on the other side of the cactus we have some ears here growing. And this is actually part of this one. So we had to cut it because it was kind of falling apart. Like it was falling down. So but now it has a new ear here. And I think maybe it's gonna grow over here another one. But yeah, super cool. Then over here we have our string of pearls. And these were actually also cuttings. So now I transfer them to the soil. And we have some other cuttings actually that are growing in water. I will show you later. And then we have some cactus here. So one, two, three. They're also very happy with the sunlight. And over here we have the tradescantias y la montana. Which is growing so amazingly guys. All of these are new leaves. This one stem is actually a new one since I got it. And it was a small cutting. Actually you may remember actually from the video that I made of this plant. She was so small. And I think now it's growing like crazy. But yeah, so I think she's happy with the sunlight here. And I would recommend if you have one of these plants, the tradescantias really like sunlight. So don't put them in a shady room because they won't be happy there. But yeah, it seems to be really happy right besides the window, the south facing window. Then here we have another gift. This is the hecheberria. And I love this one because of the color. It's almost pink or purple. It's a beautiful plant and they also love sunlight. Also another cool thing about it, I'm gonna take it out so you can see the roots here. You can see right at the bottom, they are pink. I actually discovered that yesterday when I was watering them. So it was really nice. Okay, so this one right here is another one that we have. This one also comes from Greece and it's growing really fast. But I just discovered that we have some aphid problem for this one. I think it's aphids, they're super small. I don't think you can see them anymore but for example here, you have very wrinkly leaf here and also some brown here. So this means that maybe it was attacked by aphids. So I'm gonna have to see how to treat it. But the good thing is that it's growing really nicely. Like for example, the new leaves are really nice. And yeah, I would like to know because this is a succulent. So if it is being attacked by aphids, then I have to see how to treat it because it's a succulent. So I have to learn maybe, it may be different than if you treat a tropical plant. So if you want a video about this, let me know. And yeah, I'll let you guys know how it goes. And over here we have another senesio. I don't know if you remember, but a long time ago, we also propagated this senesio from the first one that I showed you over there. So now it's also growing and it's so cool actually to do these videos because now I get to show you how it is progressing. So yeah. So now that we're done with this part of the house, we're actually gonna go to the kitchen and I wanna show you some of the plants that we have here. Actually, the first thing that I wanna show you is this propagation area. This is actually one of my, the second favorite walls of the house. The first one is in the living room and now this one because we get to see how our plants are growing and it's so amazing you guys. So I'm gonna show you the ones that we're propagating right now. This is the Golden Potos. So as you can see, we have many roots growing in the bottom and we have leaves growing too. So we have, this one is a new leaf for example right here and also the smaller ones here. So actually I think that this place is very good for propagating our plants because they don't get so much direct sunlight but we have a window over here and then we have another window over here. So then for example, they get some sunlight that actually hits them and then they can grow the roots. And over here we have the other part of our strings of perils which is also growing some perils here which is really amazing. And I'm gonna show you the roots because they're also growing. So we have some roots here. These ones are like, yeah they're actually white and very thin. They're actually really nice roots. And I put them on top of this thing here. These are called the root shoots. And basically we put some holes here so we can put the plant but we protect the perils because we don't want the perils to touch the water. So yeah, it's growing really well. Then here we have another succulent and it is also in water. This one was actually given to us. It's a gift from Jan's mom actually. And it's growing the roots so hopefully we can put it in soil soon. Yeah I think I should be able to put it already in soil. Actually maybe I should already put it in soil. So we'll do that. Our silver puddles here. Growing some white roots here. And then I really wanted to show you the next one because we saw it in the living room. So this is the one that I was telling you, the red lock. It grows really, really quickly. And as you can see, it has so many roots. I think I started rooting here this one in water maybe about three weeks ago. So as you can see there already has many roots and we can already put it in soil.  Maybe I can show you guys how I do it because sometimes it's a bit nerve wracking to do this because once you move the plant from water to soil, it can actually shock the plant and sometimes it may even die. So yeah, but let's just do it slowly and hopefully it will be fine. And talking about that, look at this one. This is the Maranta. We have a new leaf here. And it's so cool to see that they're actually growing new leaves while we are propagating them. Yeah, so the roots are right there. I think this one has been maybe rooting in water for a month. So yeah, it's doing well I think. Over here we have another gift. This is, I don't know actually the name for this one. I've been trying to find it but there are many different names in the internet and then they're actually conflicting sometimes. So if you know the name for this plant, let me know in the comments. But yeah, this is another plant that was gifted to us and there is the roots there. So and actually it's growing some new branches here. So we will see how it goes. And of course we have our silver potos here and this branch we knock it over by accident from our set set plant. So the set set plant is better to propagate it by division but we're gonna try to see and hopefully it roots in water. Okay, so now let's go to the kitchen. Which is right here. Okay, so here is another south facing window that we have. So again we have plants that like bright sunlight and most of them are succulents but for example we have this drastina here. She seems to be happy. I thought that she would be happier in like less sunlight but actually she seems to like being really close to the window. So I just left it here. Then over here we have a propagation of the aloe vera that I showed you before. So it is actually growing. This is a little bit bigger. We actually try to propagate also with this one if you remember we try to propagate another big leaf of the yellow but that one actually rotted. So I had to get rid of that but this one is actually rooting. So yeah, now I know that maybe with the offset it's a little bit easier to propagate than if you actually cut the leaf. It is still possible but you just have to be careful because the leaf may rot before it actually produces the roots. So that was a learning experience for me. Then over here we have the African milk tree. This is a propagation that we did a couple of weeks ago with our other African milk tree the big one that I showed you before. And yeah, I think it is still rooting but we'll see how it goes and I'll let you know as soon as it roots actually I'll let you know maybe on Instagram or with some posts here on YouTube. And yeah. Over here we have another succulent. This one is so cool because we actually had to cut it because it was not doing well. So we cut it over here and here and here. The three stems we didn't have any leaves. And then we just decided to keep watering it and see what happened. And then we went on vacation and when we came back it had so many leaves. So it's been so nice to see her grow. Oh yes. And if you know the name for this one also let us know because we've been looking for it but we cannot find it. So yeah, if you have one at home, let us know and maybe we can make a video about her. And this one who is very popular in this channel this one was one of our first plants that we got when we started collecting plants and we got it because they told us that cactus are very easy. This is a bunny ears cactus. So we thought, okay, so that's fine. We'll just water it and that's fine. But actually we learned that, okay, they are easy but you need to know a little bit more about them. So we actually had it in a shelf that didn't get so much sunlight. So we started growing these very long branches. I have it in another video. Now we have cut the branches and now that we know that we actually need to put it very close to the sunlight, we have it here. And it's growing really nice. Like all of this growth is actually from this year. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and then another one here, another ear coming out here. So it's nice to like, you know, it's a step-by-step process, you know, I think that you learn like as you go. And this cactus didn't die or not. So I'm very grateful for that. And now I think that she's happy. Okay, and over here, we have a sunflower. The sunflower is a little bit different than the ones that I've seen before. It doesn't have the petals, but it grows like this. And actually we're having some new blooms here. So you can see one here. Actually, look, we have another one here and another one here. Okay, so now let's go to this counter over here. This is where we prepare our food sometimes, but of course, it's also more space for plants. So, yeah, actually I have some plants here that may like bright sunlight, but not direct sunlight because this may burn the leaves. So for example, we have here the tiffenback, yeah? This plant, actually it has been a little bit hard for me to understand, but I think I finally got it. So this plant needs bright sunlight, but not direct sunlight.  This space in our house doesn't get so much direct sunlight, it's just filtered sunlight or the light that comes to the room. And yeah, the leaves are beautiful, you guys. We have some variation here. And it's actually kind of like almost white in the center and then you have the green, very bright and deep green on the edges of the plant. And then we have a new leaf here, actually. I can show you, so I'll put it over here so you can see. This one over here is rolled up and then the way that it does is just unrolls it and then it becomes this leaf. We actually have some leaves unrolling over here as well. Right there. Then we have our mint here. This is good to have in the kitchen because we use it for tea or for cooking. And it's also, it smells really nice. So when, for example, we're having a headache or something sometimes, I like to smell the leaves and it actually helps. And this is so cool because we have different propagations here from the same ones that I told you. So we have some roots here and we have also new leaves. So I'll show you over here. This leaf is growing from our propagation. I just love to see, actually, the roots that we get from the propagation but also the leaves that we get. It's just beautiful because then you know that the plant is happy. And of course, our historian. It's a very beautiful plant as well. Actually, I really love the shape of the leaves. It's actually like a heart. You can see more in this one, for example. It's really beautiful. Okay, so let's go to the bedroom. And while we go to the bedroom, I wanted to show you this one right here. This is just something personal that I wanted to show you guys. Actually, it has many pictures of where Yan and I have been with some friends and just like us in different places and different moments that we had. And it's nice to have it with this plant here because this was the first plant that we had in this house. So it's like taking care of those moments in our house. So it's really nice. And before we forget, actually, I wanted to show you this. This is the eucalyptus that we had before. These are some of the branches that we had from the other eucalyptus. And I actually dried them. So actually, you can still smell the eucalyptus in the branches. And it was really easy to dry it out. So then if something happens to your eucalyptus, which is our case, our eucalyptus, actually we lost it because it was too dry the area in our home, I think. But I was happy that at least I could save these branches. And now we have it in our dining room. So, yeah. But now let's go to the bedroom. Okay, welcome to our bedroom. So let's go to this corner right here first. And here we have a plant that is very special for us because this is the first poinsettia that we could grow outside of the holidays. So we got her last Christmas. And now we've been trying to grow her. And it's just so nice to see also the green leaves, because we always see them with these red brackets. Then over here we have a kind of succulent. This was also a gift. So I'm not sure about the name, but again, if you know the name for this one, please let me know. And we can make a video about it as well. And over here we have our Star Wars terrarium. So we did this for May the 4th and we have a video about it. But basically here we have our cacti. And it's an open terrarium. So they are happy there. And then over here we have our piece, Lily. So this one doesn't have a flower. I think it is because it's not getting so much sunlight. Oh yeah, I should tell you that this bedroom right here, I actually guess I think this is a northwest facing window. So it doesn't get so much sunlight. We get more sunlight in the afternoon and I'm gonna actually show you later in the video how it looks in the afternoon. But I think that's why this piece Lily doesn't get so much sunlight and then it doesn't flower. But we have another piece Lily closer to the window. And then that one actually does flower. So I'm gonna show you now. So let's just move towards the bed. And here we have many plants. Actually, when I saw this bed frame, I was like, okay, we have to have it because then it's great to have plants. And it's another way that you can display your plants at home. So this one actually is a gift from a very close friend of ours here in Berlin. It's Yana. And yeah, it's growing really, really fast. And I think this is a very easy plant. The only thing is that she actually needs lots of water. So I think I water her maybe more than once a week. But yeah, she is growing really quickly. Then over here, we have our golden photos. I love this plant. Again, this one also has kind of like a heart-shaped leaf. So I can show you maybe, yeah, this one right here. I don't know if you can see, but yeah, that's the heart-shaped leaf and it also has a variation, the golden photos. It's almost white or lime green, but it's really beautiful. Yeah, and it also grows really fast. This is the one that we're propagating in the other station, in the propagation station. And here is the queen of the bedroom because it has a new flower right there. And I think this one got the flower because it's closer to the window. So you get some more sunlight so then it can produce flowers. So now I'm going to show you my desk here, my working space, but first I want to show you this queen, you guys. This is the strelitzia and it's been growing so much this spring. We actually have a new leaf here and it's actually unrolling. So we'll see how big it is, but I think it's gonna be super big because every new leaf that comes out is bigger than the last one. So yeah, and we just repotted it. So I think it has a lot of space to keep growing. Then I want to show you some of the plants that I have actually underneath my desk. This is the calesia. So again, this plant was getting a lot of brown edges here. And I think it was because of two reasons. The first one was that it was getting lots of sunlight. We actually had it in the living room. So it was getting lots of sunlight. And the second reason was that the air was very dry. So now we actually brought a humidifier here to the bedroom. And I think it's doing better. It's getting many new leaves now. So I'll show you. We have two leaves here. And I'm gonna show you the other calesia that we have. It's another calesia medallion. So I have it here. And again, this one is doing really well. As you can see, it has a better, like a deeper kind of green. And it's the same type of calesia. And it has three more leaves coming out here. So I think they like to be in darker rooms. That's why I put them here. And they seem to be better. I'm gonna show you another calesia that we have here. This is a calesia ruffibarba. It's super soft, you guys. And also the colors are amazing. As you can see, you have some purple here, not brown, purple. And then green on the other side. This is the Piofitum Sensitivum. And it has a new flower. It's just flowering now. It's a pink flower, but you can have different colors for this plant. White, pink, I think yellow too. And then they produce some seeds. Actually, I made a video about this plant because it was also producing some seeds, and I showed you in the video. So if you wanna check it out, it's really interesting. And then you can just grow it from seed. And here we have the Maranta, of course. This one is also growing a lot this season. We have some new leaves here and also some other ones here. And what I know about this plant is just how beautiful the leaves are. We have some very deep green, like super dark green. Then some lime color in the center. And then these veins here are like pink or red. So they're really beautiful. And on top of that, actually during the night and the day, the Calafias and the Marantas actually close and open their leaves. That's why they're called prayer plants because they close their leaves at night, kind of like they're praying and then they open in the day. Okay, so now let's go to the other side of the room. Here we have our northwest facing window. So we don't get so much sunlight. We actually get the evening sunlight, which basically is very soft sunlight. And that's why we get many plants here that like less sunlight than for example, the croton or other plants. And talking about that, we have here the ZZ plant. This one is a very big plant and it was a gift also from a very close friend of ours. And it keeps growing actually. And I wanted to show you when our friend had it, it actually had a flower and it's right here. I know right now it looks kind of dry because it already like, it already fell off the plant. But it was the first time that I actually saw a ZZ plant flower. So there you go. Apparently they're very rare. So it's really cool that she actually showed this to us. And then of course we have here the Clusia rosea. So this plant needs more sunlight, but it's very adaptable. So I actually put it here because it gets the afternoon sunlight from the window and it's actually doing really well. Now I wanted to show you and well, tell you actually because I cannot show you now. Well, maybe yeah, I can show you. This plant started to have these dots here. These brown small dots. And I thought that these were actually like box or I even thought that it was maybe scale. But then I started to look more into it. And basically this plant sometimes has this reaction when it's not getting enough sunlight or enough humidity. So then I brought a humidifier close to her for also for the Calacias in this room. And I put her closer to the window to get more sunlight. And actually now it's not getting so many dots. Actually these are new leaves. And as you can see, there are no dots here. Okay guys, thank you so much for joining me in this plant tour. This is the first plant tour that we have in the channel. If you like this kind of videos, please let me know in the comments and I'll make sure to make more videos like this one. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Okay, ciao.