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Roses from Island Rose

I had the chance to visit Island Rose rose farm a few days ago with other bloggers and print media people. Island Rose is a premier rose grower in the Philippines.

Island Rose

Island Rose has state of the art greenhouse facilities that house their fresh and beautiful roses that can be ordered through an efficient and easy e-commerce means though islandrose.net.

The greenhouses are computer controlled where there are mist fans providing mist, roofs that automatically close if there are changes in the weather and weather station that provides data necessary to grow these roses.The ideal temperature would be around 26 degrees and not more than 30 degrees inside the greenhouses.

Every year, Island Rose produces over two million roses.  It ships around five thousand roses in the country daily from their rose farm to your home.

Preparing Island Rose roses

There are twelve varieties of roses available. The three types of red roses are the Grand Rose (thornless, thick-stemmed and has dark red buds),  Red Giant (long straight-stemmed) and Red France (vibrant red petals). Osiana roses are peach-colored. Noseblesse roses have salmon pink petals. Vivaldi roses have very light pink petals. Texas roses have golden yellow buds. Christine roses have light yellow petals. Salsa roses are deep orange in color. Lambada roses have bright orange tones. Tineke roses are white and have thick-stems. Gloria roses have the purest white color.

You can check the website for the bouquet arrangement you want and include other items with the bouquet you wish to send your loved ones.

Pink Rose

The roses are licensed plants and each plant can produce maximum flowers within seven years. The roses are harvested three times a day at morning, noon and afternoon. No, these can’t be planted in your outdoor garden as these would not survive.

Thanks to the Andaya brothers Dustin and Arnold for the tour of Island Rose flower farm 🙂

Say it With Roses

Happy anniversary. Happy Birthday. I love you. I’m sorry.

Sometimes words are not enough and we opt to say what we want to be made known through flowers.

Roses from Island Rose

This same rose came from Island Rose.

Have a great weekend all ye Photo Hunters 🙂

Posted by Treasure Jar on Sep 10th 2010 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk,Socials,Through the Lens,Visual Delights | Comments (6)

Jell-O No Bake Cherry Cheesecake

So I make cheesecake at home. From a ready-made box that we love: Jell-O No Bake cherry cheesecake. I made a strawberry cheesecake here  😀

Cherry

My children love it and a cheesecake doesn’t last long.When I did this last week, I was doing some online research about construction and didn’t noticed the kids were “devouring” the cheesecake. They left a wee slice for me though.

I got these boxes from a duty-free store and they want me to look for boxes in nearby supermarkets. I already did and these stores don’t have these products. Where I got it from was more than a hundred kilometers away from home, argh.

I may have to learn how to make a “real” cheesecake the hard way. I hope I am up to it 😉

Bracelet a Breloques

My colorful  Bracelet a Breloques which I ordered from and made by a good friend of mine.

Bracelet a Breloques

I love it and so did my eldest daughter so she had me ask Gelli to make her a set with the colors of her choice: pink, black and purple.

Happy weekend!

Posted by Treasure Jar on Aug 6th 2010 | Filed in Arts and Crafts,From the Admin's Desk,Through the Lens,Visual Delights | Comments (9)

Cafe 5845, Dishes with Kraft Eden Cheese

Cafe 5845 is a unique cheese cafe, the only one in the Philippines, has opened last July 24, 2010 at the SM Mall of Asia.

Cafe 5845 SM Mall of Asia

Cafe 5845 is made possible with the partnership of a great brand name and a trusted institution: Kraft Eden Cheese and MIHCA, Magsaysay Center for Hospitality and Culinary Arts.

Different menus will be served daily so you will never ran out of new dishes (with cheese) to try until the end of August.

Cafe 5845 SM Mall of Asia

Kraft Eden Cheese and MIHCA achieved the Guinness World Record of the most number of dishes cooked with cheese last December 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum.

cheese tarts

The number? 5,845 dishes cooked with Kraft Eden  cheese.

Cheese Dynamite

Pssst…that piece of chili stuffed with cheese, breaded and crunchy, is THE bomb! Aptly so since it is called Cheese Dynamite. I absolutely love it!

Want some recipes? Check out the Sarap ng Buhay site here.

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jul 28th 2010 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk,FYI,Plateful of Fun,Socials,Through the Lens,Visual Delights | Comments (2)

Free Food

Who doesn’t like free food? And FREE goody bags?

steak

I’m guessing even if someone is taking appetite suppressants the idea of free food is something that is difficult to pass on. It is not the calories but the idea that this is free that is the bait 😀

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