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Bringing a garden back from the dead
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 03/08/2014
» Out of the blue I received a message on Facebook from a former colleague whom I had not seen for more than 20 years. “I need some advice on rehabilitating my garden. I would be most obliged if you could take the time to come by and take a look,” he wrote.
Despite development, Phuket's botanical bounty remains
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/11/2012
» The once sleepy tin-mining town of Phuket is now a thriving metropolis, with traffic jams a regular feature of every day. If the intrepid tourists who fell in love with the natural beauty of a deserted beach called Patong, where they stayed in 25 baht a night bamboo huts in the early 1970s, were to return today, they would not be able to recognise the place with its many five-star hotels, bars and shops. In Patong the only place not overrun with buildings is the beach itself, but even this is covered from tip to tip by reclining chairs for rent.