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Some plants not as thirsty as you d-think
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/04/2012
» Regular reader Ole Tarp sent me an email from Hua Hin seeking advice about his plumeria, or frangipani tree. ''It is blooming beautifully this month,'' he wrote. ''The problem is that it will do so only one month per year.
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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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The secrets of citrus
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 28/10/2012
» Having a fruit-bearing lime, lemon or calamondin tree is like having a kitchen herb garden. It is very convenient to just pick a fruit or two if and whenever you need it to prepare a dish or refreshing drink. However, what would you do if you had a five-year-old tree that does not produce fruit?
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Learn to read into traveller's palms
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/11/2012
» Have you ever seen a traveller's palm with perfect leaves? We used to have one but I never gave this a thought until a reader wrote to ask why his traveller's palm always had broken leaves. I told him it was due to wind damage but having since observed several trees in different places, I think there are more factors involved than just the wind.
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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.
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These trees are simply to dye for
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 31/03/2013
» Wang Takrai garden estate in Nakhon Nayok boasts many trees, but during a visit there recently my son was intrigued by one in particular. After one look at it, he pronounced it "ugly". When I asked why he thought so, he said it was the fruit and not the tree that he found unattractive. "The fruits are covered by thorns, round but not quite so and look very stiff," he answered. The tree is Bixa orellana, or annatto. We have one on our farm, but he might not have noticed it. If he had, he would have thought differently, for annatto is a beautiful tree with beautiful flowers and fruit.
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A primer on lagerstroemia, All you've ever wanted to know
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 28/07/2013
» Trees in the genus Lagerstroemia are a common sight along many of Bangkok's roads, among them Rama IV, Si Ayutthaya, Phetchaburi and Phitsanulok leading to Government House. But although they comprise several species, at first glance they all look so similar that not many people can tell them apart. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the trees are called by different names in different localities, and some people lump them together under one name, generally tabaek, or salao, or inthanin.
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Pretty plumeria the plant to pick
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/09/2013
» If you like flowers and have the space, plant plumeria. At Chatuchak about three metres away from Gate 3, there are many cultivars to choose from every Wednesday and Thursday during the midweek plant market. Gone are my childhood days when plumeria flowers were only white with yellow centre; these days they come in all shades of red, pink, yellow and orange, as well as pinkish salmon, pinkish chocolate, pinkish blue and other colour combinations.
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For plump fruit, Starve the tree
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/09/2013
» Five years ago I planted a Moringa oleifera tree, known in Thai as marum, on one side of my house. It began flowering when it was about three years old and since then has been flowering heavily most months of the year. Although I have seen insects pollinating the flowers, they never developed into fruit.
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Hibiscus revel in hybrid theory
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 05/01/2014
» In last Sunday's Green Fingers you had a glimpse of some of the hibiscus hybrids that grace gardens today. They are just the tip of the iceberg; at a plant market in Quezon City, in the Philippines, I saw a poster showing pictures of more than 100 hybrids, including 23 developed by the University of the Philippines' Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB).
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