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Jack of all fruits
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 09/10/2016
» The world population was listed at one billion in 1804. Statistics show that 123 years passed before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to hit the three billion mark in 1960. From then on it rose by leaps and bounds, taking only 14 years to reach four billion in 1974 and 13 years to rise to five billion in 1987. I still remember reading about the world population reaching six billion in 1999. It now stands at 7.5 billion, and it took only 17 years to reach that number.
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Clearing the air
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 18/09/2016
» I posted a photo of a plant on Facebook and was pleased with the interest that it aroused among some friends. "What is it?" several asked. "Is it aloe vera? Is it malunggay [maroom in Thai]?"
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A shrub with the golden touch
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/08/2016
» Some gardeners like to grow shrubs and trees that attract birds, bees and butterflies to their garden. One shrub that bees just can't leave alone is Xanthostemon chrysanthus, commonly known as golden penda in its native Australia. It was brought to Thailand by a Chiang Mai plant enthusiast who fell in love with it at first sight during a visit to Queensland in Australia, and named it rak raek pob (love at first sight).
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Exploring the world garden
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 05/06/2016
» During my visit to the Philippines two months ago, a good friend of mine gave me a bag of pistachio nuts which her sister, Pin, had sent her from the US. Pin and her family live in Delano, California, and she regularly sends food packages that includes pistachio nuts, almonds, dates and raisins to her sister in the Philippines.
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A landscape on the rocks
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/11/2015
» Frederik Majoor and his wife, Patraporn, live in a tropical paradise just a seven-minute walk from Surin beach in Phuket. They own three villas that boast a lush, beautifully landscaped garden, complete with a waterfall and a large pond designed like a stream and populated by 99 colourful Japanese carp, or koi.
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The awesome avocado
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 23/11/2014
» Last Sunday's Green Fingers was about the leaves that my friend Julia gathers from her backyard and brews for tea. Soursop leaves, pandan and lemongrass all have medicinal properties, and as long as they get full sun all can be grown, even in a small space.
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Keeping our orchids in bloom
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 10/08/2014
» Recognised as Thailand's leading expert on orchids, professor Rapee Sagarik devoted most of his life to the study, culture and propagation of orchids. He shared his knowledge by introducing orchidology courses at Kasetsart University in 1952, writing books and countless magazine articles on orchid growing and hybridisation techniques, and founding the Orchid Society of Thailand in 1957 to promote not only the exchange of know-how but also orchid culture as a hobby as well as a source of income.
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Living art in miniature
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/06/2014
» During a trip to Japan years ago, I visited a village in Omiya, in Saitama prefecture outside Tokyo, where more than a dozen families grew and sold bonsai. “We get visitors from all over the world all the time,” Saburo Katoh, owner of Mansei-en nursery and founder of the Omiya bonsai village, told me at the time. “But the bonsai season is in October and November, when seasoned bonsai enthusiasts come to buy plants.
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Blooming heralds a new colourful time of year
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 23/03/2014
» Flowers, flowers, flowers everywhere! My house is surrounded by foliage plants, mostly ferns, philodendrons, dracaena, palms and fig trees, but everywhere I look I see flowers. From my bedroom window I can see a Tabebuia rosea, or pink tabebuia (chompoo panthip in Thai), in full bloom behind my neighbour’s house. Tabebuia is deciduous and sheds its leaves before it is blanketed by flowers, and for some reason this particular tree bloomed a second time immediately after the first flush of flowers dropped. There are four pink tabebuia trees in my immediate neighbourhood and those familiar with this tree can imagine just how beautiful they are when their leaves are replaced by trumpet-shaped, mauve-pink crinkly flowers. Pink tabebuia blooms twice a year around this time and in late August or early September, hence I am treated to a spectacular view twice a year without having to plant my own tree.
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Euphorbia leads to euphoria
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 02/02/2014
» Richard Dawson sent me an email saying that he had gone over a few dendrology books but kept getting stumped as to the name of a tree growing in his garden.
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