Hello, it's been a week since I created this site. Last week, I posted about cooking. This time, I'd like to talk about how I became interested in plants. When I was a child, my mother grew lots of crotons and flowering plants around our home, while my father and grandmother each tended their own vegetable gardens. I would help by watering the plants from our deep well, but I never imagined that gardening would one day become my own hobby. That changed in 2003, when I brought my parents from my hometown to live with my family in Manila. Unlike Noah, who brought pairs of animals onto the ark, I packed boxes with plant cuttings and seedlings from home and brought them with us. I thought having some familiar plants around would make it easier for my then 79-year-old mother to adjust to city life. To my surprise, my love for gardening blossomed. Just like my mother, I discovered that the cuttings and seedlings I planted seemed to grow easily and happily. And that’s how gardening be...