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From the ground up
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 13/11/2016
» Last week's column about a sick bodhi tree in the yard of a temple in Tucson, Arizona, reminded me of a letter from Murray Thomas last April seeking advice on the cultural requirements of the edible creeper Piper sarmentosum, known in Thai as cha plu.
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Not just the bee's knees
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 24/07/2016
» Following the column on pollination two weeks ago, regular reader Bob Neylon wrote from Pattaya to say that he had a small vegetable garden as well as many fruit trees and shrubs. A couple of years ago, he bought a hive of the stingless variety of bees from the local agriculture department to pollinate his plants. "They have been OK but no real big deal," he wrote.
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Hot in the city
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 19/04/2015
» From his home in Soi On Nut, David Swartzentruber wrote to say that he had been trying to grow Spartan junipers in a planting box outside his building. “I must have gone through 15 now deceased junipers. Spartan, they were not,” he wrote.
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When your garden goes squirrelly
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/03/2014
» In urban gardens, the occasional squirrel or two feeding on the fruit of trees can be a welcome sight. When my children were growing up, my son would not let me pick ripe fruit from a papaya tree that was within reach of his bedroom window so that squirrels would come to feed on them. “We can buy fruit, the squirrels cannot,” he said. Now we have star fruit trees, and the ground under them is littered by young fruit which have fallen after squirrels have eaten their tender seeds. During the mango season, the fluffy-tailed rodents jump to neighbouring trees to merrily nibble at my neighbour’s ripening mangoes, or jackfruit on another neighbour’s tree.
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Thai growers plant allure for foreign buyers
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 25/08/2013
» I have a friend in Manila who comes to Bangkok several times a year just to take a look at the latest cultivars for sale at the Chatuchak mid-week plant market. Sometimes, a group of his fellow plant lovers tags along with him. Another friend, who hails from Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao, southern Philippines, comes every December in time for the annual plant fair at Suan Luang Rama IX Park.
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National tree's great white hope revealed at last
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 05/05/2013
» I don't remember now if I read or heard from someone many years ago that Cassia fistula, known in Thai as ratchapruek, has a mutant strain with white flowers. Cassia fistula is the Thai national tree and produces the national flower and is a familiar sight along Bangkok's streets and provincial roads, as well as in public parks and private gardens throughout the country. However despite how ubiquitous the tree, is until recently I had never seen one with white flowers. Once, passing through Lop Buri while travelling to Phetchabun, I saw a tree whose flowers were a few shades lighter than most, but they were still yellow, not white.
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Queen's words inspire gardener to rise above flood damage
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/07/2012
» Noppadol Na-ngern learned a lesson from the deluge that nearly wiped out his valuable collection of plants almost six years ago. ''I realised that there's no safe place for plants but up,'' he said. ''Now I hang them whenever possible, and trees come in handy for the purpose.''
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Get ready to feel the burn
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 17/06/2012
» In response to the May 27 ''Green Fingers'' article on chillies, Bhagat N wrote to ask what could be the reason why his bhut jolokia plant is not bearing fruit even though it is full of flowers. ''I live in Bangkok and I brought the plant from Manipur,'' he wrote.
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