Blooms of the week – Shaye from On My Hand

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It’s been a while since I’ve been in Hong Kong, the last time I traveled here was 13 years ago and it was my first time in Asia. My mother lived in Shenhzen teaching English in a primary school, knew the spots and showed us around over a week.  I’ve got fond memories of visiting Lantau Island, eating dumplings for the first time and learning the MTR.

Wanting my family to experience Chinese culture in a pretty modern Chinese city I booked a hotel in Kowloon.  Kowloon is part of Hong Kong but a bit grittier than the central island.  It was also pretty close to the flower and plant market, the main one where everyone goes. (of course!)

The market is on Flower market road, in Mong Kok.   It was insane, it was like every plant you could ever want, I got kinda overwhelmed and forgot to take enough photos.  Everything grows super well there given it’s warm and humid all of the time. Hundreds of orchids, bamboo cuttings, cacti, philodendron, succulents and there seems to be a thing here for variegated leaves.

I found a shop and went to town buying up florals to create a bouquet for a local restaurant who’d looked after us well.  I picked red orchid, soft peach mini carnations, mini pineapples, a type of fern and grey berzellia berries.  There were flowers in that shop I’d never seen before and couldn’t tell you what they were!  It was so cool to experience that sort of variety.

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