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 used to grow a lot of crotons and flowering plants around our house while my father and grandmother had their own vegetable gardens. I used to water the plants from our deep well but I never really learned to keep my own plants until 2003 when I had to take my parents from my hometown to live with my family in the city. Unlike Noah who brought along male and female animals into the ark, I had to pack some cuttings and seedlings in boxes which we carried with us to our residence in Manila. I believed that bringing along some plants would not make it very difficult for my then 79 year-old mother to adjust to city life. The fondness to gardening came as a surprise only when I discovered that, like her, all the cutting...
