Freedom Park vendors start cutting prices of flowers, candles

Rosalie O. Abatayo 11/01/2017

Wanting to sell all their flowers and candles before they finally head home to mark All Souls’ Day, vendors at the Freedom Park in Cebu City have started to offer their products at discounted prices on Wednesday…

Flower prices at Freedom Park surge

Rosalie O. Abatayo 10/31/2017

THE increase in demand of flowers for the All Souls’ and Saints’ Days and the decrease in supply from local farms sent prices of some flowers at the Freedom Park in Cebu City soaring to as high…

Fewer flowers this year from the Sirao fields

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/29/2017

WHAT used to be wide, crisscrossing fields of colorful flowers are now reduced to small patches of produce in the mountain barangays of Cebu City. Unlike in the previous years, the flower farms of Barangay Sirao are…

FLOWERS and kalag-kalag Sales to pick up, prices to go up

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/27/2017

Vendors at Cebu City’s biggest flower market are expecting brisk sales days before the observance of All Saints’ Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day on Nov. 2, the period when people flock to cemeteries to…

Balamban’s haven of flowers

Agnes Alpuerto 09/25/2017

Buwakan ni Alejandra, a flower farm that has attracted visitors to this western Cebu town With the hustle and bustle of city life, we often forget to temporarily stop to take a deep breath and appreciate the…

Of flowers, ferns and foliage: inside the majestic gardens by the bay

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/26/2017

Singapore—My feet and calves are screaming for me to stop and rest after an hour of going around the Cloud Forest of Gardens by the Bay. At the time of this writing, it is Wednesday, my third…

Cherry Blossoms at Montebello Villa Hotel

PR 03/15/2017

  FOR most of us who love to travel and see new sights, Korea and Japan is surely part of our bucket list because aside from the gastronomic adventure that traveling to these places offer, a photo…

‘All Out for Ikebana’ exhibit March 17–19

03/13/2017

TO CELEBRATE its 47th year in Cebu, Ikebana International Cebu Chapter 145 will hold a three-day exhibit titled “All Out for Ikebana” at the SM North Wing Atrium featuring free style Ikebana arrangements. The show, opening on…

Retail sector cashes in on Valentine’s Day

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/09/2017

WHILE February is generally considered a “slack month” for business, brisk sales are expected days leading up to the occasion most lovers look forward to each year. Robert Go, president of the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) in…

CCDRRMO allows tourists to enter flower farms

Nestle L. Semilla 01/20/2017

TOURISTS are safe to visit and enjoy Barangay Sirao’s famous flower farms. The Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CCDRRMO) changed its resolution on Wednesday to disallow the entry to the famous flower farms because of…

Lonely graves at Carreta

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/02/2016

THREE years after the collision of 2GO’s MV St. Thomas Aquinas and cargo vessel Sulpicio Express Siete claimed the lives of more than a hundred passengers and crew, 42 unidentified victims left unclaimed by family members still…

Of muses and musings

Apple Ta-as 10/31/2016

AN ARTIST uses his hands and mind to create new things. But, more importantly, Novereich Agustin wants his artworks to speak of his “individuality”—be it through drawing, painting, beadwork, or poetry. Here we begin to appreciate the…

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