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Growing your just desserts
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/12/2013
» I was visiting my daughter, Nalinee, in Phuket recently when she decided to make a dessert known as bua loy. It is made of sticky rice flour fashioned into tiny balls and cooked in coconut milk sweetened with sugar, then topped with coconut cream. The sticky rice balls are cooked when they float, hence the name, bua loy, which literally means ''floating lotus'' although they do not have the faintest resemblance to the flower of that name. Add whole eggs and it becomes bua loy khai wan.
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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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Gardening run to the farm brings splendid surprises
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 04/08/2013
» Over the long weekend two weeks ago we went to our farm to do some gardening, but before we left I was faced with a dilemma: What would I do with the plants on my bedroom balcony? Usually, when I am going away for a week I take them downstairs to the front yard where there's some sun so that the maid can water them in my absence. As there are more than a dozen plants, some of which are rather big, this is not an easy task.
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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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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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Primordial plants bring beauty and health to the modern world
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 09/06/2013
» Selaginella, collectively known as spike moss, are not your ordinary kind of plants. Classified among the "lower plants" for their lack of flowers and seeds, they belong to a group which dominated the Earth's surface long before flowering plants and trees made their appearance. Fossil finds trace their origins to the Carboniferous period 290-354 million years ago. As a genus, they comprise more than 400 species worldwide.
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Stop the madness _ let roadside trees reach their full glory
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 14/07/2013
» I was travelling along Rama IV Road last week when I saw that some of the Pterocarpus indicus, known in Thai as pradoo, trees on the roadside had flowers. Pradoo usually flower in April and it is now July, so these were late bloomers. Especially spectacular was a tree across the streets from Chamchuri Square. It was small but it completely shrouded by flowers, which was unusual as pradoo shed their leaves two or three months after the end of the rainy season and develop new ones before or during blooming time in the summer, so the golden flowers are always accompanied by lush green leaves.
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Tree of life: Leaves help good health take root
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/07/2013
» Andre wrote from Ban Chang in Rayong to say that he wanted to get some dried leaves of Terminalia catappa, or Indian almond tree, for his wife's fish tank and asked where he could get them. I suggested that he find a tree and pick up the leaves that had fallen from it. If Andre cannot find a tree in his immediate neighbourhood, Wang Kaew Beach Resort near Laem Mae Pim in Rayong has several Terminalia catappa, known in Thai as hu kwang, by the seaside. Leaves fall every day, so I'm sure he will be able to obtain what he needs there. All he has to do is to dry them a bit more and they won't be any different from dried hu kwang leaves sold at some shops selling Siamese fighting fish at Chatuchak Weekend Market.
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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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Fruit migration brings sweet joy to the world
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 07/04/2013
» During a visit to the Philippines a few years ago, I asked a cousin, who was an agricultural extension officer, if he could give me a sapling of a banana I had been craving for a long time. A plaintain locally known as saba, it is as common in the Philippines as the kluay namwa is in Thailand.
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