morning at glen & marnee's

i spent my morning at glen & marnee's place. brought them some cheese as a bit of 'buah tangan'. i took down the directions to their house from the online street directory. however i had forgotten to take down their house number. my instict was to look for a house full of orchids. i was wrong. their front house was filled with a full garden of roses ..fortunately i recognised their car.

glen had all his phalaenopsis (phallies for short) all near the kitchen. he has a 3 tier tray that house at least 30 phallies. it was a nice breakfast nook actually..with sunshine pouring in. marnee also had anthrium lillies etc everywhere in the house.

the morning proceeded with glen checking out the condition of my plant. we have a similar plant from one of the meeting. his plants was way smaller than mine when we first received the plants. of course under his 'expert' TLC, the plant flourished. it has gone double in size and the new growth was so huge. in fact his new growth was the size of my actual original plant and my baby was smaller than your winky finger. anyways i am doing it the correct way but i don't have the right location. so he asked me where my windows and everything are.. keke..that proves a bit of a challenge; i don't know the direction of my house. i think it is north facing but i couldn't be sure. he then asked me where do i see my sun set etc and then he got mixed up all mixed up coz i kept changing the location of sun set. all along, marnee sat knitting away and laugh coz she understood my place but glen couldn't ..we finally had it on paper...and he then told me where are the places to house my orchids.

we then went on a tour to see his shadehouses. he's got probably 1000 plants. he has 3 shadehouse and each of them is filled up with seedlings and grown orchids and each has their own sick bay. he also keeps each species in one house. i wonder how they keep up with so many plants. they also plant other sort of plants like bromeliads, roses etc. glen was going to give me this orchid plant to take home but i told him i will be going away so it will stay at their place until i come to collect them. hehe.

then we went back to the house and marnee's made some fanstastic cheese scone to go with green tea..she even had cucumber pickle on it. it was very nice. the pickle tastes a bit like achar we have back home.

anyways all these while, i thought marnee's a malaysian :P then finally discovered she's THAI.
we sat and have interesting conversation about anything..she also made chicken puffs and fish puffs. *yum....

before i went home, they even offer to baby sit my phallies when i go away coz phallies are a bit tricky to look after. marnee also gave me some roses from her gardens. they smell so nice, when i got home, my car was filled with the scent of roses...i put them in a small vase and they made my living room smells like rose garden now....*ekeke

shameless me also asked for a bit of the succulent which is growing in her garden :P she gave me a handful too..

looks like this evening, i will plant the succulent and also repot a few of my cymbidiums. some of the barks are falling out, i think they need to be repotted.