Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
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Meet People of TopTropicals. Pea Cock of the Day: the Orchid Guard
Recently we started to reveal the secret about who works behind the
scenes on TopTropicals project; you have already met our editors and their
assistants: Marina with Tilda, and Alex with Sonya. Today's story is about a Magic Peacock who works in orchid greenhouse of Eleanor
Wilks - our photographer and tropical plant journalist in New Zealand and
Australia. The watermark EleNZ you see on pictures of Australian flora - is
Eleanor's!
Today Eleanor is sharing with us pictures of this amazing bird that helps
her around her Orchidarium.
This young Pea Cock showed up one day in her backyard from nowhere and set
up his living quarters in a tree. She asked around: no one was missing a
peacock... so she took the Pea in and now he is in charge of her orchid
collection. After a day of a hard work, Pea comes home to the back porch, waiting for
Eleanor to sing him a good-night lullaby. Pea won't go to sleep until everyone in the house is ready for bed and the lights turned off. What a responsible house guard!
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Meet PeopleCats of TopTropicals. Cat of the Day: Sonya, the Co-Author
In our previous newsletter, you met our editor/photographer tandem - Tilda & Marina. Today we introduce our columnist assistant - Sonya. For the past decade, this True Norwegian Forest Cat has been a great helper and inspirational co-author for Alexandra, TopTropicals website writer and social media blogger.
Alex has been with TopTropicals since Day One (2003). In 2011, she got Sonya, a 3-month old kitten that someone kicked out: at that young age she already had quite a temper of a real Wild Cat. No one wanted to adopt her and Sonya was doomed to suffer a street life... So Alex invited her in the house... and it took her many months to teach Sonya some good manners! And Sonya turned into a beautiful and affectionate Purrrson as well as became the Boss in the house (what a surprise, duh) and Alexandra's dearest life companion. Sonya also discovered her talent in writing plant stories for TopTropicals, sitting on Alex's shoulder and whispering into her ear while she is typing Sonya's horticultural tips. And when Alex stares at monitors for more than 5 hours, Sonya lays on her keyboard saying: "Now get up and get some stretch lady! Let's go re-pot some plants for a change!"
We will be following up on Sonya's creative work, and you will hear from her again soon...
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