SELFIES IN BLOOM

Apple Ta-as 11/01/2015

Cut flowers draw photo-hungry visitors Yellow and red blooms greet visitors who arrive at a small hillside farm in barangay Sirao, Cebu City. It rained hard in the morning, and fog draped the site yesterday. This didn’t…

Colored candles for All Saints, All Souls’ Day

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/01/2015

Commemorating the feasts of All Saints and All Souls need not be limited to shades of white and violet. Under a big umbrella that shades her stall in Freedom Park,  Jenesses Caramelo sells multi-color candles. She said…

Farmers ready to meet demand for cut flowers

Apple Ta-as 10/30/2015

Flower growers in the mountain barangays of Cebu City are busy harvesting  flowers to meet peak  demand  during the observance of the All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days this weekend. Among them is couple Ellane and Julito…

Upland farmers showcase Cebu’s cut flowers

Nestle L. Semilla 10/13/2015

A parade of floats featuring the cut flowers of upland Cebu City kicked off the 2nd Flower Agri-Bonanza Festival yesterday. The parade from Fuente Osmeña to Plaza Sugbu in front of Cebu City Hall featured floats with…

Monitor prices of V-Day gifts, PB urges DTI, LGUs

Melissa Q. Cabahug 02/13/2015

THE Cebu Provincial Board approved on Monday a resolution urging the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the local government units (LGUs) to monitor the prices of commodities and items that are popular Valentine’s Day gifts.…

Flowers

Radel Paredes 11/02/2014

On this Day of the Dead, I do not want to be morbid, so I stay home and do some gardening as I watch over the welder I hired to  create the wrought iron pot plant holders…

One of Cebu’s most sought-after floral arrangers knifed to death in Day-as shop

Melissa Q. Cabahug, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/21/2014

There were no flowers adorning the bier of one of Cebu’s most sought-after florists, Daniel “Jun” Cañete. The bare chapel inside the St Francis Memorial Homes where his body was taken for the wake last night pale…

La Femme Fleur

Edward James Castro 05/28/2014

Florals for summer? Groundbreaking! (insert Miranda Priestly’s snarky sarcasm). I remember that line so well in the movie “The Devil Wears Prada,” only that it was Spring instead of Summer. What else is more appropriate then? Flowers…

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