3 Easy-Care Plants for Beginners

Beautiful and well-composed Instagram plant posts with lush greens in luxe pots make you want to DM their online shop and shop all their products for your home. But unlike home furniture, having plants that thrive in your home requires some effort and attention that varies with each plant type.

Zero-Waste Challenge at a Children's Fast-Food Party

When I booked a year-end party slot last January, I wasn’t really planning on any theme. But I endeavored to organize a #ZeroWasteChallenge Year-End Class Party in line with March 15 #FridaysForFuture in McDonalds. I figured a tactile, small-group activity would be engaging and fun for the kids, but how do I make it all eco-friendly, especially in a fast-food restaurant?!

5 Reasons Why Plant Parenthood is Good for You

My recent photo stream has been emitting a green glow from my growing number of plant babies, most of which are gifts from my green-thumbed parents who propagate the plants from their thriving home garden. Having grown up surrounded by the greenery of Mt. Makiling, I’ve never noticed how much a difference plants make until I started living in the city, surrounded by gray steel and hard concrete. It was suffocating and depressing to be in a home without any sign of plant life. And so with just a small patch of soil our former residence offered, we planted a thriving bamboo tree and took care of several potted plants. But now that we’ve moved into our #FixerUpper, I’m quite pleased to have converted one of the concrete-paved corners into a grassy pocket garden and it’s been one of my passion projects to grow our home plant population.