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Take it to the bank trees to plant by rivers
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/07/2012
» Nick Ferren sent me an email saying that he built his house on the bank of a tributary of the Moon River in Ubon Ratchathani. ''With the flooding, the soil at the bank should be protected,'' he wrote.
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It's not too late for sanam luang fair
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 09/12/2012
» Plant lovers still have today and tomorrow to check out the annual plant fair being held at Suan Luang Rama IX Park. The much awaited event draws not just Thais but also plant enthusiasts from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Last year, a friend who lives in Cagayan de Oro, in the southern Philippines, bought a plane ticket three months in advance in anticipation of the event, which is held every year from Dec 1 to 10. Imagine his disappointment when the fair was cancelled due to the floods that put much of Bangkok under one metre of water for several weeks.
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Blowing away the arguments against big trees in Bangkok
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 21/07/2013
» Last week's column on Pterocarpus indicus, or pradoo, in bloom on Rama IV Road made me pay closer attention to trees along Bangkok's streets. Five days a week I have to fetch my grandson from school in the Dusit area, and from my gate near Suan Phlu to the school, I pass by many trees along the way.
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Adenium thrive when thirsty
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/09/2013
» Continuous rains brought on by a succession of tropical depressions in the Philippines prompted a friend in Manila to send me a message of distress. "It has been raining for the past weeks and the sun rarely shines for long. I put the plants that you gave me in a dry place but some of the leaves are turning yellow. Help! I'm panicking, I'm afraid they might die. What should I do?", she asked.
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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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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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Where have all the gardeners gone?
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/06/2014
» Is the Chatuchak midweek plant market dying a slow but natural death? Last Wednesday I went to see how the market was faring after the latest coup d’etat, and found it to be just a shadow of its old self.
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A dahlia by any other name
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 27/07/2014
» My childhood friend Leandro Nunez, who lives in San Francisco, and his wife Dana went strolling with their granddaughter Emilia at the Golden Gate Park near their home last week. Dahlias were in bloom, and the proud grandparents sent me a photo of beautiful Emilia posing among the gorgeous flowers. Dahlia is the official flower of San Francisco, and every year the bountiful flowers attract visitors from far and near during their peak blooming time from June to September.
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On the hunt for the plant thieves
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/12/2014
» Why would someone steal the world's rarest water lily? That was the question asked by Sam Knight in an article published in the British newspaper The Guardian recently. He wrote the lengthy article after the smallest water lily in the world, the Nymphaea thermarum, whose white flowers measure less than 1cm across, was stolen from — of all places — the Princess of Wales Conservatory in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London.
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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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