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You can now find a teeny weeny slice of Tropical Spice Garden at the soon to be opened Sigi’s at Golden Sands Resort, Rasa Sayang. Exectuive Sous Chef, John Brock, approached the gardens late last year 2009 still garbed in Chef’s uniform and hat together with Steven the Director of F&B. They proposed for the [...]

Ok let’s cut to the chase with common terminology used among gardeners! Perennial adjective 1. lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring 2. (of plants) having a life cycle lasting more than two years Examples of perennials at Tropical Spice Garden 1) Orthosiphon aristatus/ Cats whiskers 2) Cananga odorata / Ylang ylang shrub 3) Clerodendrum [...]

Anna Biddulph, current Design Technology and Art teacher at Uplands International School, has done a great service to Tropical Spice Garden. Her fabulous eye for creating beautiful creature art from recycled materials has been delivered without disappointment. Anna was a full time sculptor back in the UK where she was commissioned to do work for a private [...]

PERIWINKLE Catharanthus roseus Family: Apocynaceae The scientific name catharanthus is derived from the Greek word katharos which means ‘pure’. And anthos which means ‘flower’. [Incidentally, my name Katharine also has the same Greek derivations meaning pure! - ed] 2 significant alkoloids or drugs known as vinblastine and vincristine are used in the treatment of Hodgkin’s [...]

Dear Friends I take great pleasure in inviting you to the Penang launch of the book “Penang under the East India Company” by Andrew Barber. Mr Barber will be present and we hope you take this opportunity to come and meet him at 29 China Street. The book will be introduced by Dato’ Anwar Fazal [...]

It’s always a pleasure to welcome back old friends – personal friends and friends of the spice gardens – all friends! Adelena Chong was one of the first friends of the gardens who celebrated her brithday here with us about 6 years ago and I remember it ended with Cherie dancing on our table tops! It [...]