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Planting The Yam
 In line with our feature plant for this issue we realised
that although the aroids have been part of our cullinary scene for
decades, we never include them in our backyard garden or herb garden.
The reason could be that most of us have little idea as to the variety
that is edible. We depend very much on the farmer that sells his tubers
in the wet market.
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is quite simple to ensure that the variety is right by just getting
your stock from the ones you purchased for cooking. The tubers can be
propagated easily. Our how to section in the next iisue will deal with
propagation of tubers.The various varieties of Colocasia esculenta are
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A Courtyard Garden
 Designs of purpose built buildings be it apartments or
terrace houses at one time incorporated an indoor garden. Size was
usually small, as the objective was usually to meet the requirements of
having an airway for good circulation.
House
owners are sometimes at a loss as what to do with their indoor garden.
Now with the popular idea of having a courtyard garden, these indoor
gardens can now be transformed into the fashionable courtyards by just
adding a few features. |
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Yam Dessert
 The edible version of the aroids is ingredients of popular
dishes in Asia. Malay dishes of the old recipe gives us the savoury
vegetable dishes and sweets for dessert. Chinese dishes in dim sum have
the yam as yam cakes and fried yam with seafood filling as the example
of savoury dishes. I am sure there are many other exotic dishes in this
region that are having our aroid as an ingredient. We have come up with
two favourite lauk for a meal with rice as well as a dessert, simple
and sweet. |
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Creating Art With Foliage
 A visit to the couturier, Bernard Chandran’s place in Kuala
Lumpur found us not only admiring his masterpieces but also the flower
arrangements in his studio. We discovered that the arrange-ments were
done by Stephanie Chandran, his sister. Stephanie finds that flowers
make her feel comfortable and happy and loves to create arrangements
with the common garden plants and even plants she finds by the
roadside. Many of them are aroids. |
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