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Desert bloom
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/09/2016
» Arun Kumar Paul sent me an email from Kolkata, India, to say that he loved plants like his own life. "I have a few adenium plants," he added, "but I have little knowledge of their culture. Could you give me some ideas?"
Grow your own grub
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 22/11/2015
» Readers must have heard of His Majesty the King’s por piang (self-sufficiency) economy for farmers. Based on the assumption that a farmer owns 15 rai of land, it advises the land be divided four ways: 30%, or 4.5 rai, for a pond or water reservoir, 30% for a rice field, 30% for vegetable and fruit orchards, and 10%, or 1.5 rai, for a residential area.
High and dry
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 26/07/2015
» Where have all the flowers gone? Last time I was on our farm six months ago, the flowering plants and shrubs were blooming in all their glory. But during a visit two weeks ago, there were very few flowers, and even the bougainvilleas, which bloom nearly all year round, were missing.
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.