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Femme Fatale Anthurium

Many years ago, my cousin told me an odd advice my aunt had passed on to him. That time, he was about 13 going on 14 soon. This is the age where sooner or later, hormones are discovered and for guy...

Onion Power

This week’s flower will be much easier to remember when you think of Shrek (year 2001 movie). Yes, the big green ogre that lived in a fairy-tale land filled with wise-cracking cynics, kind-hearted ...

Sweety Rose Dear

I don’t need to further explain how universal Roses are to romance, love, happiness. People have included roses in their song lyrics, literature novels, science innovation, healing purposes and pai...

Curcuma

Just a short throwback to yesteryears… my mum used to put turmeric spice into her curry dishes. She’s still alive today but doesn’t cook as much as she used to. I remembered I was a 9-year-old girl...

Zinger Ginger

Let say one day, you fell sick. And the kind of sickness you get is cold, cough, sinus, etc. You visit a clinic doctor and he will prescribe you antibiotics. There’s nothing wrong to take that medi...

All About That Brassica

Short quiz here: name as many as you can the types of vegetable greens are out there. (No, general name ‘salad’ doesn’t count.) If you cooked healthy greens often for your meals, you would have co...

Ahhh, we’re back again to Peonies. Peony has so much history that each story about it is too interesting to ignore. Aside from Greeks and Middle-Ages Europeans, here’s what peonies meant to the Jap...

Over the centuries, peonies have been cultivated in different continents. Being nurtured in a different soil naturally meant that peonies would symbolize something significant in that country’...

Beautifully Yours, Peony

Marco Polo once called me “Roses, as big as cabbages”. [The Lush Pink Peony]Source: http://goo.gl/rqWPyE 10 Things Up, Close and Personal with me: I’ve lived since a long time ago, dated b...

Celosia derives from the Greek word ‘κηλος’ (kelos), meaning ‘burned’, while Gerbera epitomises innocence and purity. At a glance, they may not make the best partners but we’d like to think other...