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A12=Bee K C Tan
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Product details
- ISBN 9789811429194
- Dimensions: 145 x 170mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This is the story of one woman’s journey through time, accompanied by the most beautiful flowers; trees... even weeds, including: Lagerstroemia, saga tree, magnolia, kumquat, balsam, petunia, lilac, flame of the forest, chempaka, peony, narcissus, queen of the night. Interwined with her memories are plant lore and things botanical.
“Plants bookmark the memories and milestones of my life. As an only child in a household of adult, plants became my friends. As I grew up and wherever I wandered, there was always a plant to cheer me up, a flower to keep my life connected.
In San Francisco, an old Japanese garden sage taught me how to utilize light and shade, when to water, and how to get the best out of herbs and vegetables. In Hong Kong, an accidental weed visited my window sill and comforted me while I deliberated the future.
It was plants that finally connected me with my husband in China. I’m an ethnic Chinese whose grandparents left the mother country. He was a descendant of Manchu princes and was sent down to Inner Mongolia as a teenager to toil in the potato fields during the Cultural Revolution. Yet both of us connected through our love and knowledge of nature and our gardens.”
Pauline Dawn Loh is a veteran journalist with a passionate love of food history and gardens. She is fortunate enough to be married to another journalist who shares her obsession with plants and together, they tend their gardens in Beijing, Kunming and Singapore.
Born in Singapore, Bee K C Tan was a medical doctor who did not stop making art. She graduated with a Certificate in Western Art from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 and obtained an MA in Art Therapy in 2007 from Edith Cowan University. The aunt of Pauline Dawn Loh, Bee currently resides in Perth, Western Australia.
