Garden Growing

Dear Diary,

In Prince Edward, which borders Mong Kok, there is a place I will call ‘Garden Street’. Here you can find all sorts of things for your garden — plants, flowers, decorations, tools, you name it. Today I went there and bought three plants.

One of the plants is a little rosemary plant. I could use the herbs when cooking. It also smells kind of nice.

The second plant I bought was a cherry tomato plant. There are some tomatoes already on it and it puts the one I tried to grow on my own to shame. Hopefully it will inspire the one I already planted to do better.

The third plant I bought is actually three different plants in a lovely little container. According to Steph’s translation, the plants are Podocarpus, Buddhist Pine and Dragon Fruit seedlings. It’s sort of Chinese-looking to me and I thought it looked nice so now it’s decorating my dining table.

Steph bought a plant for her office as well. I’m not sure what that one is called, but it’s got big leaves and looks neat.

There are so many nice and cheap plants at ‘Garden Street’ really. My cherry tomato plant was only $12 (about $1.50 US).

Being so close to Chinese New Year, the little shops were really packed full of people, so it was difficult to really shop around leisurely. I’ll try to go back again another time and really take my time. But for now …

I remain respectfully yours,
Stephen