Here's the first new addition to our family in almost 10 years. He's the sweetest kitten ever. But hell on the houseplants. Most of the plants are crammed into a spare bedroom, yearning towards the weak winter light filtering in through the North facing window. The Banana Grove, however, spends its winters basking in the glow of Southern exposure of our master bedroom. The only drawback for the Grove, this winter anyway, is the tiger twining through its trunks and casually drawing a claw through a shading leaf, or, more worse: getting used as a juicy scratching post...ouch !