'Tiangge sa MSBF' in QC
MANILA, Philippines - The Manila Seedling Bank Foundation Environmental Center at Quezon Avenue corner EDSA offers flowering and ornamental plants in a tiangge setting.
About 50 stalls were set up in Greenhouse 3 to accommodate small plant growers, nursery growers and traders from all over the country. They offer indigenous plants endemic to their province only.
Plants and gardening materials are best gift items for people who love nature. Flowering, ornamental and landscape plants like orchids from Davao, Pangasinan and Cebu; rare ferns from Quezon and Laguna; landscaping plants from Bulacan; botanical from Bicol and rare finds from Mindoro, Palawan and many parts of the Visayas are sold at tiangge prices all year round.
Also available are medicinal plants like comfrey, aloe vera, verbena; water plants such as lotus, sagitaria, and cuyapo and nymphea; unique plants like staghorn ferns, pitcher plants, giant ferns, rattlesnake plants, black bamboo; landscaping plants like multi-colored ti, dracaenas, sanseveria, palms, conifer’s, aroids and spathiphylum.
“Tiangge sa MSBF,” also known as “Nature’s Best,” features Bert Libadios of Cebu, Varunee’s Garden of Los Baños, Laguna; Victor Lozanta of Bulacan; Rosy’s Garden of Cagayan de Oro; Paradise Orchids from Possuribio, Pangasinan; and MaryAn Wu Orchids of Malvar, Batangas.
The tiangge was conceptualized by MSBF president Chito Bertol to give growers all over the country a venue to sell their specialty plants to Metro Manila residents at reasonable prices.
“It also helps address the greening of the metropolis and improve our living condition and the urban environment,” Bertol explains.
Shoppers can also avail of fruit-bearing, flowering ornamental, and Philippine forest trees in all sizes — from seedling to full-grown ready for landscaping.
The center boasts a wide selection of quality vegetable seeds and seedlings for food production and offers pruning, landscaping, tree relocation and treatment services in preparation for pre-Christmas cleanup and repair of gardens damaged by the previous storms.
“Tiangge sa MSBF” is open daily, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. For inquiries, call 924-0166, 924-7001 to 02, and 929-9312.
