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Jack of all trades
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/01/2012
» James Anderson wants to know what causes the fruit of a large jackfruit tree behind the school where he teaches in Thung Lung, Songkhla province, to turn black and rot. "The fruit are huge _ the size of the trunk of a small child _ but they are covered with disease," he wrote. " [They have] large gaping dark black or dark brown holes with putrid brown juices dripping from them, and all eventually just fall to the ground rotten.
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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.
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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.
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Life's a beach for these beauties
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/04/2012
» 'Green Fingers" on March 4 offered some suitable choices for oceanfront homeowners looking for plants to add shade, decoration or boundary markers to their property. Coconut trees and casuarina, known in Thai as son talay, are the most prominent trees along beaches throughout the country, but they are by no means the only ones you can plant by the sea.
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Grow your own when prices go bananas
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 20/05/2012
» During my last visit to the Philippines in November last year, I bought bananas for 100 pesos (73 baht) a hand or bunch. I thought those were the most expensive bananas I had ever bought. I told my sister, who simply loves the fruit, that they would have cost me only about 20-25 baht in Bangkok. I never dreamed that only six months later, I would see bananas of the kluay hom variety selling for 75 baht a hand at Klong Toey market, and 80 baht at Pak Klong market.
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Make gardening an inside job with these houseplants
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 22/07/2012
» Some time ago, Johan Hanssen wrote to say that he had tried numerous plants indoors, but they all withered and had to be moved outdoors. ''Can you recommend plants for ... inside a house in Thailand?'' he asked.
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Alternatives for when the neighbours are raising a stink
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 12/08/2012
» Dhanasak Chullakesa wrote to ask: ''Do you know any plant or tree that absorbs unwanted smell? I'm talking about a big area, not indoors.'' Mr Dhanasak has the misfortune of living next to a pig farm, and his letter came the day after the publication of the ''Green Fingers'' article of July 22 which mentioned that, according to a Nasa study, plants have the ability to clear the air of indoor pollutants and that plant-filled rooms contain 50% to 60% fewer airborne moulds and bacteria than rooms without plants.
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Give your plants some breathing room
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 26/08/2012
» Corrinne Hopkins has had a Wrightia religiosa, known in Thai as mok, in the same pot for more than five years. ''I really love it, especially when it is in full bloom, the fragrance is just very unique and perfumey,'' she wrote. ''Recently, maybe for the last two months or so, the flower buds dropped off without turning into flowers, and lately, even before they turn to buds they are dried out, almost burnt like. The leaves also have become smaller and shrivelled up on some of them. I am not sure what to do, or what the problems are. I really love this plant.''
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Go forth and propagate
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 09/09/2012
» Fruit trees propagated from seed sometimes do not bear fruit with the same qualities as that of the mother plant. This is due to cross-pollination; the insect that pollinated the flower had transferred pollen from the flower of another tree, producing seeds that either combine the characteristics of both trees, or show the more dominant of the two.
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Dragonfruit roaring across southeast asia
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 25/11/2012
» The first dragonfruit I ever tasted came from Vietnam, brought by a Thai friend who had an import-export business there. I thought it was strange that I was eating the fruit of a cactus; until then the only cactus I knew of with an edible fruit was the prickly pear in the genus Opuntia, which I've never tasted. The dragonfruit _ Hylocereus undatus, and christened kaew mangkorn in Thai _ was much bigger, and I marvelled at its bright pinkish-red skin with green-tipped scales, and white flesh dotted by tiny edible sesame-like seeds. Eating it chilled, I couldn't quite pinpoint what it tasted like; it had a flavour all its own, which was refreshing. It was in the mid-1990s, and I remember saving some of the seeds, which readily germinated.
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