Blooming Unicorns: Say hello to Zinnia

Introducing ZINNIA the latest addition to our Blooming Unicorns collection!

Zinnia is a friend to all animals, especially butterflies! Her mane is colourful and wild. She's playful and full of wanderlust. Her best friends are Myra the Donkey and Pugsy the dog and every summer, they vacation in Peru! Zinnia secretly wants to do stand up comedy and sometimes she tests her material on us... 

"What do you call a Unicorn with long lashes"?..."a uni brow". She's still working on her material. 

Rm39.90 (excluding delivery). Please call to order and due to popularity pre-orders are strongly encouraged. 

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Zinnia was inspired by our amazing friends at Doggy Bag Malaysia, the love that they pour into their wholesome product range, and how they walk the talk in caring for the strays in their neighbourhood. Tipping our floral hats to Sara Lo and Sazly Marhusin. Thank you lovely humans, you guys are pawsitively awesome!

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Blooming Unicorns

"Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" 

"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you." 

– Lewis Carroll; Through the Looking Glass 

Yes, you read that right. We have unicorns ... and we're pairing these mythical magical creatures with our other adored passion - succulents! 

Meet the Blooming Unicorns and get to know the personalities: 

PETUNIA

Petunia loves to read. She’s a bibliophile with an ever growing collection of books for her bookshelves. Her idea of paradise is a library that’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and serves coffee! Petunia is also a hopeless romantic and the sight of old couples who hold hands while walking makes her smile.

DAISY

Daisy loves to travel. Her favourite past time is to pour over maps researching new travel destinations. She has an old gypsy soul and loves sharing adventure stories with her niece and nephew. Daisy collects postcards from vibrant cities located all over the world. Don’t forget to send her one the next time the travel bug bites you.

LIZZIE

Lizzie is a music lover. She believes in music the way some people believe in fairy tales. Never a dull moment around Lizzie as she’s always breaking out in song! She recently started playing the cello and every Friday evening, although nervous, she performs at the little park around the corner. If you’re ever in the neighbourhood drop by.

Stay tuned, new characters will be introduced periodically. Rm39.90 per pot (excluding delivery) and comes with a description card. Call 6014 368 1044 to order. Pre-orders encouraged.

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Royal Floria Putrajaya 2015

Public Service Announcement: If you're headed out to Royal Floria Putrajaya, here are some points to note: It's outdoors and blazing hot (temps soared to 34C yesterday but felt waaaay hotter). Sensible clothing  footwear, umbrella, hats, sunscreen are must haves.

Set Waze point to: Floria Putrajaya Car Park

It seemed like parking was a free for all, although there are designated areas; just be mindful of which zone you're parked at.

The ticket booth is by the mainroad outside the primary entrance. Tickets are rm5 for mykad holders and rm10 for non-mykad holders. But once inside the grounds you'd still need to buy a separate ticket to enter the Spring & Winter Dome. It costs rm3 and the booth for this is located next to the Dome.

It seemed hard to get a guide map for the exhibit zones. If it helps, here's a photo of the site map, do save it to your phone.

For refreshments, there are food trucks, stalls and beverage vending machines in most zones. But carry some water anyway.

The plant display is the first zone you'll pass through and there are lots of good buys. Our advice is, make your purchase on your way OUT so that you don't have to lug these bags throughout the exhibit.

Inside the covered display areas, the domes are air conditioned and a nice respite from the heat. But there aren't any benches to sit. So you'll find people sitting on the edge of the larger artistic displays - most probably the ones you'll want to photograph. But if you politely tell them that you'd like to take a photo, folks do step aside with a sheepish smile :)

Be patient, especially if you're a photography enthusiast cause the exhibits are beautiful and worth the few seconds to wait for, as folks will be whipping out their mobile phones, and inadvertently stick it right infront of your face.

Take your time and enjoy the profusion and abundance of flowers and plants on display and appreciate the hard work that went into it. Remember no picking of the flowers :)

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