In the almost decaying and decrepit part of Manila’s Sampaloc area where University of Santo Tomas, Asia’s oldest academic bastion is also located, there lies a place that delights the sense of sight and maybe even the smell. Just beside the Dangwa Bus Terminal at Dimasalang St and Dos Castillas St., rows and rows of virtual feast of flowers implore you to take a break and embrace the experience.
The Dangwa Flower Market is Manila’s enchanted garden. This is where variety of floral produce is unloaded from Baguio (as transported by Dangwa Bus). A small stall would have densely packed bundle of vanilla colored baby’s breath. Malaysian mums in strikingly deep hues are tightly fastened and placed lazingly in plastic pails. Fresh Dendrobium Orchids in purple and violet are delicately displayed in plastic wrap. Green foliage litter the red brick floor of the newly fixed up market that evokes the setting of old Manila.
Of course, this flower market has roses of all sizes and shades. Need to seduce a paramour – how about big bulbs of American roses in velvet red, presented as a bouquet draped in Japanese paper. Want to uplift grandma’s spirit – let the shopowner come up with floral arrangement teeming of sunkissed orange and yellow rose blooms. Now how about having that one stem of blue rose (really? could be dyed) for the ultimate crush.
Thankfully, Manila has cheap flowers for the taking. Very likely, prominent flower shops of the Metro would order their merchandise from their suking vendors. It is not a wonder if this sliver of an area is heaving with people not only during February 14 and November 1, dates that require flowers.
But you need to be careful in that area, particularly on a rainy day. Several weeks ago, one boy died as he was swept away by a wave of ankle deep flood. He held on to a Dangwa's lamppost fashioned like the ones in Manila Baywalk. There he got electrocuted and just died.
Thus enjoy viewing and smelling Dangwa's flowers, but don't touch that lamppost. Or else, these flowers may just be brought to you so untimely.
The Dangwa Flower Market is Manila’s enchanted garden. This is where variety of floral produce is unloaded from Baguio (as transported by Dangwa Bus). A small stall would have densely packed bundle of vanilla colored baby’s breath. Malaysian mums in strikingly deep hues are tightly fastened and placed lazingly in plastic pails. Fresh Dendrobium Orchids in purple and violet are delicately displayed in plastic wrap. Green foliage litter the red brick floor of the newly fixed up market that evokes the setting of old Manila.
Of course, this flower market has roses of all sizes and shades. Need to seduce a paramour – how about big bulbs of American roses in velvet red, presented as a bouquet draped in Japanese paper. Want to uplift grandma’s spirit – let the shopowner come up with floral arrangement teeming of sunkissed orange and yellow rose blooms. Now how about having that one stem of blue rose (really? could be dyed) for the ultimate crush.
Thankfully, Manila has cheap flowers for the taking. Very likely, prominent flower shops of the Metro would order their merchandise from their suking vendors. It is not a wonder if this sliver of an area is heaving with people not only during February 14 and November 1, dates that require flowers.
But you need to be careful in that area, particularly on a rainy day. Several weeks ago, one boy died as he was swept away by a wave of ankle deep flood. He held on to a Dangwa's lamppost fashioned like the ones in Manila Baywalk. There he got electrocuted and just died.
Thus enjoy viewing and smelling Dangwa's flowers, but don't touch that lamppost. Or else, these flowers may just be brought to you so untimely.
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