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Aside from single or a dozen flowers, some vendors in Carbon market also sell arranged flowers. More people are buying arranged flowers in a basket than buying singles or dozens of flowers. Flower vendor Jovan Yungco said…
Flowers arranged in vases or baskets and candles in varying colors, shapes and lengths are the staple of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. With All Saints’ Day’s eve upon us, have you bought flowers and candles…
Photos by Tonee Despojo and Junjie Mendoza…
It’s going to be busy days ahead for the flower growers in the mountain barangays of Cebu City, with only days away from the commemoration of All Saints’ Day and Souls’ Day on the first two days…
(Conclusion) For flower farmer Jonie Bonganoy, the task of harvesting and packing his cut flowers is made easier with the help from his friend Toto Bayawa, 32, who is also the owner of the lot that Bonganoy…
With the flowers now in full bloom, more local and foreign tourists are traveling to the mountain barangay of Sirao in Cebu City to take “selfie” with celosia flowers, locally known as the burlas, which are abundant…
Once a week, before a streak of sunlight touches the asphalt sidewalk of Gorordo Avenue, a mini-bus unloads more than 30 freshly harvested poles of bamboo from Cebu City’s hillside barangays Bacayan, Sirao and Talamban on the…
Like a protagonist in a novel by John Cheever, I mark the year’s passing with the changes in the liturgy. Hence, the feast of St. Michael the Archangel alerts me to the arrival of October, with the…
I HAVE come to the sad conclusion that the species called ‘gentleman’ is slowly becoming a thing of the past. There are a lot of nice guys, yes, and they can be funny, attractive, smart, interesting or…
And I woke up in this garden called Earth and flowers grew from my system. I am a flower, both literally and figuratively. My name is Sienna Rose and despite my mom’s explanation that she named me…
BECAUSE of the intense heat, the quality of cut flowers and vegetables produced in Cebu has deteriorated while their prices have gone up. Plant growth is stunted while the cut flowers easily wilt and their stalks are…
A friend invited me to join a project – a book that contained reproductions of her paintings of different doors. She asked me to write a poem to accompany one of the paintings. The invitation struck a…
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