December 1, 2007
Walking home from dinner at a Laos restaurant last Friday we noticed a small nursery. We decided to take a quick look at what they had, seen as our apartment was in desperate need of some greenery.
We left with a large orange heliconia, a banana tree, a plant with big hart-shaped leaves and three orchids. All of this cost less than US$20, including the taxi we had to get to take us and our jungle back home. I feel much better now that I am almost sleeping under a banana tree.
December 1, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Oh wow… this makes me green with envy (no pun intended). I only have one simple phalaenopsis orchid in the house that does remarkably well until we go away on holiday and it, like our other plants, are almost killed by friends that pretend to take care of them (read: let them dry out until the day we return and then overwater them before we come home).
I can’t believe how cheap everything was. Lucky you.