tropicalgreens

Hello world! Welcome to my side of the tropics - Philippines! My passion for ornamental plants did not start early in life, but my experience did.

I grew up in the modest town of Rizal, an only child of a famous RM Awardee for journalism (1974) and an enterprising mother. Growing up my father wrote an agriculture column for local broadsheets & magazines while my mother handled my father’s garden store. I held summer jobs in the store, selling & micro managing the operation while learning hands on taxonomy of different species and genre of plants around me like cycads, palms, bromeliads, aroids, anthuriums & aglaonemas. But I took that for granted, and went on to make a career on advertising for myself. This career went on for 15yrs until I experienced a major burn out that I decided to leave the industry for good.

With nothing else to do - I started to notice the garden again. I literally stopped to smell the roses - OMG! Where have I been all this time? I actually started appreciating the most mundane things - the leaf form on the aglaonemas, the spores on the ferns were interesting, the bee on top of  the pollens became fascinating & the hoya flowers became beautiful. Now am hooked! - My passion has been stirred. And this is how my journey begins.