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Saving the savannah
Life, Published on 27/08/2012
» Just about every afternoon, a natural phenomenon has evolved into one of Thailand's greatest wildlife shows. A savannah situated in Kui Buri National Park in the southwest province of Prachuap Khiri Khan provides a backdrop for three of the Kingdom's majestic wild animals.
Make fruitful use of even the tiniest space
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/07/2012
» Last week, ''Green Fingers'' discussed some fruit trees that will fit a small yard. Mango trees are usually big, but you can plant one if you want. Just make sure that the sapling has been propagated by marcotting, which means it has been rooted from a mature plant. It will therefore be easier to fashion into a small tree than a sapling which has been grown from seed.
Muay Thai in Mexico: So far yet so near
Life, Published on 12/06/2012
» The kids looked scared stiff, apparently uncertain of the performance they were going to deliver. Despite their initial hesitancy, however, the students of Escuela Thailandia on the outskirts of Mexico City managed to finish singing Thailand's Royal Anthem, with an innocent off-keyed touch, thanks to coaching by a staff member from the Royal Thai Embassy who was standing a stone's throw away.
It's easy being green
Life, Published on 17/05/2012
» All it takes is a small blip in the system to remind us of our dependence on nature.
Hold the salt, or not, They're not particular
B Magazine, Published on 22/04/2012
» In the April 8 ''Green Fingers'' I mentioned that Zizyphus mauritiana, or Indian jujube, Cerbera odollam, or teen ped nam in Thai, and plumeria or frangipani are among the trees growing just above the shoreline at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre in Phuket's Cape Panwa. All three thrive beautifully amid the salty sea breeze, but actually they are very versatile trees that can be planted anywhere in Thailand.
Some plants not as thirsty as you d-think
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/04/2012
» Regular reader Ole Tarp sent me an email from Hua Hin seeking advice about his plumeria, or frangipani tree. ''It is blooming beautifully this month,'' he wrote. ''The problem is that it will do so only one month per year.
Make the moist of it
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/03/2012
» The exact number of trees killed by the floods that devastated nearly one third of Thailand from August last year to mid-January may never be known. But if we take into consideration the fact that no tree is able to remain alive in stagnant water for long, it is safe to estimate that hundreds of thousands if not millions of trees were wiped out. After years of hard labour tending their fruit trees, orchard growers in provinces ravaged by the floods will have to start all over again.
These trees love a sea breeze
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/03/2012
» Marc Jacqueline and his wife have acquired a piece of land near Khanom Bay in Nakhon Si Thammarat and want to plant trees around their property to define its borders. ''We were planning to use mango and coconut trees, but maybe we should look at alternatives such as teak or Acacia mangium or Caesalpinia pulcherrima,'' he wrote.
Orchids are born to be wild
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 26/02/2012
» While we were staying in a hotel during a family holiday in Prachuap Khiri Khan, the friendly hotel owner suggested that we make a side trip to Dan Singkhon near the Thai-Myanmar border. ''There's a thriving market there for wild orchids from Burma,'' she said. I had heard of Dan Singkhon before, but although Prachuap Khiri Khan is my family's favourite holiday destination and we go there every chance we get, we had never been to Dan Singkhon. It's not because we don't like orchids, but buying orchids taken from the wild is tantamount to encouraging poachers to go back to the forests to collect more plants to sell in the market.