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Fire Flash- I Planted Roots in Mexico

By Tommy Clarkson from the February 2014 Edition Chlorophytum amaniense or Chlorophytum orchidantheroides, C. orchidastrum, C. filipendulum amaniense Chlorophytum orchidastrum, Chlorophytum filipendulum, Family: Anthericaceae, Liliaceae or Agavaceae (Also known as a Mandarin Plant, Fire Glory, Orange Spider Plant, Green Orange Tangerine and Sierra Leone Lily.) Introduced to the Americas not much more than a decade ago, this perennial […]

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January 2014 Calendar of Events Manzanillo

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the January 2014 Edition January 31 – Friday CASA HOGAR LOS ANGELITOS FUNDRAISER 2014 “Changing Lives, One Child at a Time” Where: Pavilion at the fairgrounds Time: 5:30 pm – Silent Auction 7:00 pm – Dinner Cost: $45.00 USD Contacts:Marge Tyler maggiet19@earthlink.net JaniceMorgan janicebmorgan@comcast.net Jan Mabey janmabey@hotmail.com – Silent Auction Liz […]

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Local Flavor Tour

By Suzanne A. Marshall  from the January 2014 Edition In Manzanillo there exists a really wonderful group of people called ‘Manzamigos’. For a token annual fee, the group is pretty much open to anyone living in Manzanillo but it serves to bring many permanent and semi-permanent people from outside Mexico largely (but not exclusively) from the […]

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Candlebush- I Planted Roots in Mexico

By Tommy Clarkson from the January 2014 Edition Senna alata Family: Fabsceae (Also known as a Candelabra Bush, Empress Candle Plant, Candletree, Christmas Candle, Emperor’s Candlesticks, Empress Candle Plant, Popcorn Senna, Candelillo, Ringworm Bush or Acapulco) Around here, for all intents and purposes, this is the veritable, “ubiquitous wild bush of magnificence” while in some other locales […]

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