Plant #1: Mint Trees
I love anything related to mint leaves - Colgate tooth paste, essential oils, cakes, chewing gum and candies. I like to roll the mint leaves between my fingers and sniff their pungent scent like some addictive drug. But my wife does not like the idea of putting the mint leaves inside the tea, she said it felt like pushing the Colgate tooth paste inside your drink. Whatever. So I decided to purchase four pretty mint leaves in pots (at RM 12 each) from a nearby nursery. There are couple of things that I learned after three months purchasing four mint plants: #1: They need the sun I was told that the mint should be in the shaded area. So at first, I put them on the balcony by our bedroom, so I could wake up, pick few leaves and sniff them like some drugs. Then I thought it would be a great idea to put one of them inside the kitchen where I could fashionably pluck one or two leaves and soak them inside my cup of tea. I was never so wrong. The indirect sunlight from
