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Friday, February 5, 2021

Fangirling: Legend of the Blue Sea (KDrama)

February 05, 2021 0 Comments

A long time ago, a boy loved a mermaid and heard a mermaid's voice...

 


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Release date: November 16, 2016 - January 25, 2017
Episodes: 20 
Language: Korean
Characters: 
  • Jun Ji Hyun as Sim Cheong / Se Hwa
  • Lee Min Ho as Heo Joon Jae / Kim Dam Ryung
  • Lee Hee Joon as Jo Nam Doo
  • Shin Won Ho as Tae Oh
  • Sung Dong Il as Ma Dae Young / Lord Yang
  • Lee Ji Hoon as Heo Chi Hyun
  • Shin Hye Sun as Cha Shi Ah
Plot: The series centers on the love story between the newly appointed town head named Kim Dam Ryung, and a mermaid he named Se Hwa. Sometime during August 1598, Dam Ryung stays for a night at an inn run by Lord Yang. That evening, Lord Yang shows Dam Ryung a captured mermaid. Later that night, Dam Ryung releases Se Hwa into the ocean, and before she swims away, Se Hwa reaches out her hand to Dam Ryung which he briefly hods. In the present day, Heo Joon Jae is a smooth talking conman with magician like abilities. He works with Jo Nam Doo and Tae Ho. One day, while he was on vacation at an oceanside resort in Spain, his room was broke in by a mysterious woman. Little did he know, this woman whom he later named, Sim Cheong, was a mermaid and was accidentally washed ashore on the oceanside resort during a tidal wave. 

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⊱⁜⊰ Legend of the Blue Sea is based on a collection of mermaid stories by Joseon scholar, Yu Mong In. In them, a country magistrate released mermaids into the ocean.
⊱⁜⊰ This was Jun Ji Hyun's first acting role since giving birth to her son in 2016. She was commended by her co-stars for all her efforts, especially with the underwater scenes, despite her being 6 months post natal. 
⊱⁜⊰ Cha Tae Hyun makes a cameo appearance as fake shaman in episode 4, marking his and Jun Ji Hyun's first onscreen reunion in 15 years since co-starring in the 2001 hit film, My Sassy Girl. Other cameos include; Lee Min Ho's Heirs' co-stars, Krystal as a flight attendant and Kim Sung Ryoung a conned CEO in episode 1, Jo Jung Suk as a merman in episode 7, Ahn Jae Hong as swindler Kim Bong Duk in episode 2, Park Jin Joo as hospital employee in episode 6, Jong Yoo Mi as Kim Hye Jin in episode 8, Kim Sun Young as jjimjilbang ajumma in episode 11, Lim Won Hee as doctor in episode 19, and Kim Seul Gi as mermaid in episode 20.
⊱⁜⊰ This was Lee Min Ho's last acting role before entering the military for two years.
⊱⁜⊰ Na Young Hee (Heo Joon Jae's mom) and Hong Jin Kyung (Sim Cheong's homeless friend) both acted alongside with Jun Ji Hyun in My Love from Another Star as her character's mom and best friend respectively. 
⊱⁜⊰ The underwater scenes were filmed in Palau.
⊱⁜⊰ The drama was written by screenwriter, Park Ji Eun, the same writer as My Love from Another Star.

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✎ "Wait" means something good is going to happen soon. Even when I go far away, like a wave, my friend will find me. It means when there's something scary, like a shark, you don't have to be scared, or look around. It means my friend hopes I didn't get hurt. A word that warms the heart. It means something good is going to happen. ~Sim Cheong


✎ It was summer, 20 years ago. A boy came from Hanyang to visit his grandma at the beach. After that summer, the boy returned to his home in Hanyang. But he tried his best to come back to the beach. He brought food from the land that I had never tasted before. And he showed me beautiful things on land that I had never seen. The two of us spent time together like that and grew up together. On the first night of their marriage, he left the nuptial room. Then he rode for several days and headed towards the ocean. He knew, since he couldn't swim, the mermaid would appear to save him. But he didn't know an important fact. Mermaids have a special ability. Mermaids can make someone forget them when they kiss the person. Just like that, the mermaid disappeared from his memory, like a sea foam. 

✎ A promise should always be kept. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ I will keep my promise. I'll go to you. even if there's a windy rainstorm, or when the sun shines down on me, when I'm lonely, and without anyone by my side, and even if it's somewhere I've never been before... I will endure it all and be sure to go to you. ~Sim Cheong

✎ You can only protect others after you protect yourself. Not the other way around. It's stupid to switch the order. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ Good and pretty things disappear quickly, Joon Jae. Like this, look at it closely. Now keep it in your heart like this. Then, when you have a sad day, you can think about it. ~Joon Jae's mom

✎ A friend is a person who believes to the end all the nonsense is uttered. If he has a lover, a friend takes care of her too. ~Yak Sun

✎ Families are like bunggeoppang. They look just like each other, and they're warm and sweet. ~Sim Cheong

✎ In my dream, we were born again. We met again and were together. You came from a far away ocean to meet me. Though I could not remember you, you were already in my heart. ~Dam Ryung

✎ Divorce is when people who got married break up. Because they don't love each other anymore. ~Seo Yoon Ah


✎ Joon Jae: Listen carefully. The easiest thing in the world is to be disappointed with another person. Even after liking how someone looks and acts, we quickly get disappointed. No one overcomes disappointment. So loving another person is very difficult.   
    Cheong: It's not.
   Joon Jae: How so? 
  Cheong: For me, loving someone is very easy. Even when I tried hard not to... I wasn't able to not love. No matter how much I wanted to be disappointed, I wasn't. Love overcomes everything.

✎ A guy can't resist a woman who is good to his mom. ~Ahn Jin Joo

✎ If you are me in a future life, remember these words when you wake up from the dream. Everything will repeat itself. The fate in my world will continue in yours. The same goes for unfortunate events. Protect that woman from the dangerous person. ~Dam Ryung

✎ No matter how cold it is outside, there's always a warm place to return to. I was able to talk to you, laugh, eat, and have fun with you. The place where I could see you anytime. The place where I could love you as much as I wished. ~Sim Cheong

✎ They say that life is a series of chance encounters. If you value the chance encounters, then your life becomes filled with loving connectedness. If not, you will lead a lonely life. ~Beggar Friend

✎ She won't go anywhere. She'll continue to stay by me. Even if she goes somewhere else, I'll be following her. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ Find a good man who can look into your eyes. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ Despite knowing all of it, I just don't regret it. Meeting you was something I don't regret no matter how I look at it. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ You should know by now, that even if I'm not by your side, I will continue to love you. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ I don't like that you are that kind of person, but for me, once you become a friend, that's all. Whether you back stab or not is your choice. If you stab me in the back, then I will think what to do with you. Until then, you are my friend. ~Sim Cheong

✎ You said you would rather love and be in pain than not remember and not be able to love. ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ You hold on to the memory of love even if it hurts. ~Mermaid

✎ You never know what's going to happen to your life. Don't just look at your present situation. Even if people don't change, circumstances do. ~Ahn Jin Joo

✎ Some words are said without talking. ~Sim Cheong

✎ You should probably know this by now, even though I'm not by your sidem I'll always keep loving you. So, be happy in all of the moments I'm not in. Laught a lot and receive a lot of love. Like all normal people, I wish you to live comfortably for a long, long time. I don't wish to become your scar or some type of nightmare. I love you. ~Sim Cheong

✎ Once upon a time, a young man went to the sea, but the ship got overturned. He met a mermaid and he was saved. He married the mermaid and they had babies. They lived happily. Among the children who were born between the human and the mermaid, some returned to the water, some remained on land. They became like patron saints to the people of that vilage. While communicating with the mermaids of the sea, if a storm was likely to come, they told people ahead of time not to go out to the sea. ~Joon Jae's mom

✎ But life is short. My love will be longer than my life. My love won't end in this life.  ~Heo Joon Jae

✎ Finally, we made our dream come true. In a village where not much exists, not much news occurs, in a small boring village with nothing special, we are living a very simple life. While crying and laughing at very simple things, we feel happy and sad. While watching quietly how our time together flows, each day, each hour, each minute, and each second... after making many detours, I treasure the love that finally came to me. As we remember our legend that's far off, beautiful, and secretive. 

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This 2016 Korean fantasy/romance television series was nominated in various awards and won some of it in the 2016 SBS Drama Awards. This is a bit of a mix of genres. It is a love story between a mermaid and a con artist. You could boil the down the plot summary to: mermaid comes ashore for the first time, bumps into attractive man, and much hilarity ensues. Your literal fish-out-of-water story. But more than the romance, it's also a historical drama (leads living in parallel universe: one in Joseon era and one in modern day), a crime drama, and a family drama. All of those genres appear in both comic and serious guises. So basically, it is your modern retelling of the Little Mermaid.

There's a real charm to the early episodes. There's a lot of comedy, great acting and some stunning scenery. The humor was on point. Although I must say that some of this comedy and charm disappears when the plot got a bit complicated with family relationships, a serial murderer on the loose, lots of trust issues and some very earnest falling in love, I still get the laugh out of the subtle humor or not.

The drama certainly did an amazing job at stitching the present day to the Joseon flashbacks. The way they present just fragments of the whole story from the Joseon era was so good. The writers did an excellent job at connecting two timelines together. They have done an amazing job at patching up all the subtle clues they've shown to us and give us a couple of mind blowing twists in the process, leaving viewers to want more. I liked the folklore element, too. This show was apparently inspired by a historical tale about a mermaid contained in the short story anthology entitled Eou Yadam by Joseon-era scholar Yu Mong-in.

I really like the chemistry between Lee Min-Ho and Jun Ji Hyun. They look beautiful together. Both of them acted really well. They have shown excellent chemistry. Either romantic or ridiculous moments, they both nailed it. The female lead gave justice to the mermaid-on-land role. She can be funny and dumb but still look gorgeous. I love how she transitioned from an ignorant mermaid to a confident, pretty woman. It was really entertaining to watch her experience all the "ordinary daily routines" like it was something foreign and out of this world. She was a joy to watch all throughout the series. And you'll feel for her when she found out her inevitable demise if she stays out on land. All in all, he character is one which everyone will instantly love. Claps to all the cast! The actors and the actresses have done a great job to entertain the audience. The casts were on point with regards to their respective characters. Though, I wanted more screen time and character interaction for Tae-Oh. 

Overall, the story, the setting, the legend, the cinematography, and all, are very well executed. For me, this drama is worth watching, and re-watching. A near-perfect magical romance story with a splash of Joseon taste best served fresh! 




 





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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Garden Journal: My GROWING Sansevieria Collection (Part II)

September 16, 2020 0 Comments

 

Previously, I have shared with you that part of my bucket list is to rearrange our garden and in the process I have accidentally collected 15 varieties of Sansevierias or commonly known as Snake Plants. Most of my "starters" were given to me as gifts or I got them from local post sale on Facebook Marketplace. 

Read more about Siam Silver here: Cathie's Bucketlist
 

Few months back, I joined this Facebook group about local and international Sansevieria enthusiasts. And how my heart got tickled pink! The number of interesting varieties with beautiful leaf shapes and variegations caught my interest. And just like that, I decided to get a few from another sansevieria enthusiast. 


Seller is actually located in a different island, thus my happy mail took a while to arrive. The delay was actually caused by the community quarantines in different areas. Although Sansevierias are known to be hardy, the time frame still made me worry. 




Additional 9 Sansevierias added to my collection


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After I received my happy mail, which was about 2-3 weeks from the time the seller mailed it, I did a superduper quick unboxing (mainly because I dont know how to set-up my camera). I still didn't plant it right after as I am waiting for the pots I ordered from another seller. By now, the sanses have survived not being planted for almost a month. I took those time to research the plant IDs. Compared to my previous collection, those were actually easy to ID, these uncommon sansevierias caused a bit of confusion on my part especially the cylindrical ones. Thus....

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A SANSEVIERIA EXPERT. The IDs that you will see in the following photos are product of Google search results, plant identification apps, and baffling forum exchanges. These were not verified by botanists and horticulturist. Continue reading at your own risk. 😆



📌 Sansevieria Canaliculata Carriere

Common Name / Trade Name: Canaliculata


This stemless succulent often grow up to 3 feet long. The cylindrical leaves are sometimes erect or slightly curved, and have 5-6 longitudinal grooves and rounded rib-like spaces between them. Color would range from pale to dark green. 


📌 Sansevieria Gracilis

Common Name / Trade Name: Gracilis


Another cylindrical variety can grow for about 18 inches tall. The flexible, narrow, dark-green , awl-shaped leaves have sharp spines on the tips. The tips may turn brown at the very end which is normal. 

Actually, it took me awhile to get the "right" (again, not 101% sure but this is the closest one I got based on photos and descriptions on forums). The initial ID I got was Sansevieria Cylindrica. I tried looking it up online and it lead me to lot of different cylindrical sansevierias. The Cylindrica that I found online grew straight and looks like multiple spears growing on the ground.


📌 Sansevieria Bacularis

Common Name / Trade Name: Bacularis


Bacularis is a compact hybrid snake plant with dark green leaves and slightly paler light green striping. The name Bacularis stems from the latin word "Baculum" meaning stick, rod, or staff. This specie is capable of growing to over 4 feet but doesn't typically exceed in 0.2 cm in diameter. 


Comparison of Gracilis, Bacularis, and Caniculata
Check out the difference on their leaf markings, variegations, texture and growth shape.



📌 Sansevieria Fernwood

Common Name / Trade Name: Fernwood


Fernwood is a compact hybrid snake plant with long, emerald green, pointed leaves with snake-like striped patterns. The numerous elongated leaves grow in all directions. These leaves join at the base to form the plant body. This Africa native may reach up to 4 feet. 


📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Bantel's Sensation

Common Name / Trade Name: Bantel's Sensation || White Stripe Sansevieria


This beautiful variegated snake plant features a dark grey-green leaves with contrasting creamy, white vertical striping. The upright leaves can reach up to 3 to 5 feet tall and 1 to 2 inches wide. This West Africa native is often confused with Siam Silver. 


Comparison of Siam Silver and Bantel's Sensation
Check out the difference on their leaf markings, variegations, and margin.


Read more about Siam Silver here: My Sansevieria Collection


📌 Sansevieria Trifasciate Brazilian Moonshine

Common Name / Trade Name: Black Brazilian Moonshine


Black Brazilian Moonshine is a mutation for Sansevieria Moonshine. The leaves of this variety are more compact than the regular moonshine, and is about 8 cm wide and 15 cm long. It's tongue-like, nearly silver leaves have random dark green vertical patterns. When grown in the shade, the leaves turn to darker green.

 

📌 Sansevieria Ballyi

Common Name / Trade Name: Ballyi


When I first tried looking this one up, I got confused big time because the photos I saw online were not as close to what I have. Initially, my id for this one is Sansevieria Hargeisana (check photo here) because of the resemblance on the photo but eventually decided to stick with Ballyi. The leaves of Sansevieria Ballyi are laterally compressed, cylindrical in shape and usually measures about 2-4 inches long and 1/4" thick. The dark green leaves are cross-banded in light green. The apex is red-brow. They curve inward to lengthwise to form a groove. These leaves are joined at the base to form the plant body.


📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Hahnii Jade

Common Name / Trade Name: Hahnii Jade


This dwarf sansevieria is one of the most distinctive of the Hahnii group due to the foliage displaying no marking or chevrons on the deep-jade thick semi-shiny pointed leaves overlapping to form a rosette creating tight upright cups. Hahnii Jade will form clumps over time. 

 


📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Futura Robusta

Common Name / Trade Name: Futura Robusta


Futura Robusta is like the medium size version of the Mother-in-Law's Tongue. The pale, silvery green leaves are tiger-striped with deep green, irregular stripes. This variety can grow from 6 to 9 inches tall and about 8 inches wide. 

And that's it! The nine additional sansevieria I've recently acquired. As of writing, I have 3 more incoming, and I'm hoping that it will also arrive safe and secured. The three that are on the way are still on the semi-rare bracket of the Sansevieria family. Right now, I am still a bit hesitant to shell out for the rare ones, as some can actually hit thousands. However, I am not closing my options. We'll never know what's in store in the future. At least, there's something to look forward to during this pandemic. Stay safe, everyone! Happy planting!



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Monday, August 17, 2020

Garden Journal: My Sansevieria Collection

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I love gardening. Ever since I was young, I enjoy gardening. It's probably because I grew up in a home surrounded with different variety of crotons and santans. My dad is fond of planting though I rarely see him spend a lot of time in the garden. He was always busy at work to make meets end for a family of five. He was a hardworking man, who grew up in a farm. Which is probably the reason why in some ways, he  made sure we had some blooms and greens in our house. His mom, or Nanay as we would call her, owns a beautiful garden. Different varieties of orchids, shrubs, even fruit trees were grown. Tatay, my paternal grandfather, was the one I always see tending the garden. My aunts, even away from Bacolod, also have their own lovely gardens. I can say, gardening runs in our blood. 

Personally, I am not really into collecting specific plant species. I'm more of a "oh you're pretty! I want you" or "Nice leaf, I think I want you" kind of urban gardener. Which is why, I didn't expect I'd be owning a growing family of sansevierias. 

It started when this pandemic hit us. We were on community quarantine and on a work from home set-up. Since most of the time I am at home now, I have finally decided to finally tick off one of my bucketlist: to rearrange our garden. Think about turning this wasted time from pandemic into plantdemic. 

Related: Cathie's Bucketlist


This is my initial set. 
(back to front: Siam Silver, Parva, Bird's Nest, and Moonshine)

As mentioned, I wasn't really into Sansevierias. We've been growing Parva at home, but that was it. However, this one time I was looking for a garden medium supplier, the lady was also selling plants. You know that usual voice you hear when you're buying stuff online, "Save more on the delivery fee, by buying more"? Long story short,  I bought 3 Sansevieria varieties for the price of Php 100.00 only. Note that this purchase happened before the "Plant Fever" and people are still busy with barter (yea, if you're not from Philippines, we hyped barter groups. Yes, that old school barter trade), so don't expect you'd still be able to get plants a little less than Php 50. 

And from 4, it accidentally grew to 8 and now I've collected up to 15 varieties of Sansevierias. Why accidentally you say? You see most of my plants we're given to me. My good friends and relatives are generous enough to share with me a piece of their garden. Most of the time, I get surprised when they would send me a message that my plant is ready for pick up or that they have already dropped it off to my mom's office. I'm lucky I found such genuine people. From those generosity, my four turned to eight, to fifteen! Yup! Fell down the Sansevieria rabbit hole pretty fast. 🙈

Now let me share with you my growing Sanse Family!


📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Hahnii Marginated

Common Name / Trade Name: Dwarf Laurentii

Flashback to my many young years ago, I thought this was just the baby version of laurentii. Little did I know it was another cultivar. It's common here in the Philippines. My dad was into crotons, and we didnt have any sansevierias back then, so I would usually see this in neighbor's house when I was young.  Like most Hahnii, it only grows less than 30 centimeters. 



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Hahnii Jade Dwarf Marginata

Common Name / Trade Name: Black Star

Looks the same like the Dwarf Laurentii except Black Star have solid green leaves marginated with creamy yellow. 



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Hahnii

Common Name / Trade Name: Bird's Nest Sansevieria

Bird's Nest Sansevieria is a short growing form of Sansevieria Trifasciata. This is quite common here in the Philippines along with Black Star and Dwarf Marginated. This stemless plant remains less than 30 centimeters high and spreads into a cluster of leafy funnels. It's green leaves are marked with clear horizontal bands. Although it is a rare sight, this sanseveria blooms greenish white flowers. 



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Hahnii Streaker

Common Name / Trade Name: Streaker

I initially thought I finally got a Hahnii Swirl! Only to be equally excited to know that what I got is a "Streaker". Streaker is another interesting mutation of Hahnii. It has a streak of silver-gray down the center of each leaf with dark green patterned margins. 


📌 Sansevieria Aubrytiana

Common Name / Trade Name: Father-in-law's tongue

How old were you when you learned there's a Father-in-law's tongue? 
This one has pale green, marbled  foliage with reddish margin. This one can actually grow like tall blades, but slightly smaller than Sansevieria Trifasciata or Mother-in-law's tongue. I've read that this variety is a native of Angola, and Tanzania. 



📌 Sansevieria Guineensis Variegata

Common Name / Trade Name: Golden Hemp || Yellowstone

This beauty has wavy, grayish-green waxy leaves richly marginated in creamy yellow. The striping are vertical and they distinctively curve as they mature. This variety grows about 20 inches tall. This is quite uncommon, and I luckily got this on Facebook marketplace for a very budget-friendly price.



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Moonshine

Common Name / Trade Name: Moonshine

This is the first hybrid I fell in love with. It's unique silver-green leaves margined with darker shade of green are so attractive. Moonshine grows about 12-20 inches tall and it's leaves are about 3-5 inches wide. 

Fun Fact: In low light conditions, the color will turn into darker green but will still retain the silvery touch. 



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Silver Hahnii Marginata

Common Name / Trade Name: Night owl || Silver Star || Starlight

Sansevieria Night Owl has rich, shiny dark green spear-shaped foliage that is surrounded by creamy whitish-yellow variegation. This uncommon hybrid is small and compact. It's actually prettier than moonshine, in my opinion. 



📌 Sansevieria Kirkii Pulchra Coppertone

Common Name / Trade Name: Coppertone || Star Sansevieria

Coppertone is a rare cultivar of the Sansevieria variety of Kirkii Pulchra. This exotic beauty is commonly know as 'Star Sansevieria' and is abundant in Tanzania and East African countries. The stiff and elongated leaves have wavy edges and copper to bronze tones. They usually get around 3 feet long. Like most sansevierias, Coppertone also blooms scented flowers. I was surprised to read about that too! Would be interesting to see mine bloom. 



📌 Sansevieria Parva

Common Name / Trade Name:  Kenya Hyacinth

This Sansevieria is quite common here in the Philippines. This is the first snake plant that we owned. It has a light-green narrow leaves with darker patterns. The leaves can grow up to about 12-15 inches and about 2 inches wide.
Like most of our Sanse, we started with only one planted on a big pot, and it grew and gave pups abundantly. Prior to the pandemic, we had 3 pot-full of parvas thriving and enjoying the neglect. LOL. Then when the pot became way overcrowded, my dad decided to plant it outside our house around the mango tree. With it's leaves a bit pointy, it helped ward off people climbing our tree and taking its fruit without permission. Hahaha! Unfortunately, the pandemic came, and along with it is the "plantdemic". Slowly, people passing by our house are no longer interested in the fruit our mango tree can offer, and prefers to take our parva instead. Now we only have 2 pots-full left of this neglect-loving plant. 



📌 Sansevieria Masonia

Common Name / Trade Name: Mason's Congo || Whale Fin

This Republic of Congo native earned it's nickname "Whale Fin" because of the unique shape of it's unusually wide, paddle-like leaves. Though slow-growing, the Whale Fin reaches an impressive size compared to the other member of the sansevieria family. It grows up to 3 feet long and up to 1-2 feet wide. It's paddle-like leaves are beautifully mottled with patterns of dark and light green, and unnoticeably leaf margins are often pink-ish red. With its unusual look, it makes a great conversation piece.



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Metallica

Common Name / Trade Name: Siam Silver || Manolin || Sayuri

This is one of my first four. At first, I thought this was Bantel's Sensation. Got the right ID when I joined a PH-based Facebook group about Sansevierias. Siam Silver or Manolin can grow up to 2-3 feet tall and it's still, leathery leaves are about 2 to 3 inches wide. They have a vertical striping pattern of grayish green bands of varying width. 



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata Laurentii

Common Name / Trade Name: Laurentii

Another common variety that I have is the Laurentii. Months before the plant hype, I saw this variety just outside a small sari-sari store near our house. I even planned how I am going to befriend the store owner or what to buy from her store, so I can ask for some. I've always wanted to have one to be added to my collection. I've passed by her store couple of times, practiced what to say, thinking what to buy, but I could find the courage to do what I wanted so I kinda give up without attempting. Lucky for me, few days after I decided to give up, my cousin Leny sent me some. Hahahah!

Laurentii means "three bundles" and this can be seen in the leaf markings of the variety. Each leaf is margined on both sides with solid lines of broad, creamy-yellow edges. In the center, there are two different shades of horizontal, zigzag green stripes. This strap-shaped, fleshy perennial can grow up to 3-4 feet long with leaf width of about 1-2 inches wide.  


📌 Sansevieria Jaboa

Common Name / Trade Name: Jaboa

This striking upright variety of sansevieria shares a lot of similarities with Whale Fin. It has wdie leaves and can be a very good floor plant since it can grow tall as it matures. I tried looking for its mature size measurement online, but to no avail. This giant was given to me by my good friend Nikka. 😄



📌 Sansevieria Trifasciata

Common Name / Trade Name: Mother-in-Law's Tongue

The tallest among my Sansevieria and the most common here in the Philippines. Funny thing about me having is, eventhough this is the most common sansevieria, I just recently acquired together with the Mason's Congo. 


And that's it! My 15 (and maybe expanding) Sansevierias. Would be interesting to add more rare cultivars of this plant. I'm eyeing Variegated Whale Fin, Boncel, and Silver Nymph. I think they're captivating!

Before I end this post, a very quick update. Recently, experts reclassify Sansevieria under the Dracaena genus. It means that if we call a snake plant Sansevieria Trifasciata before, now, it will be known as Dracaena Trifasciata. For me, I'm still not comfortable addressing it as Dracaena, as a different plant comes into my mind. Hahahha 


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