My father’s love of gardening intrigued me. He would often graft roses and create bushes with multi-colour blooms. The plants were beautiful and the budding scientist in me kept wondering, how are plants able to do this?The first plant I ever grew is the commonly known ‘Red Apples’ (Aptenia cordifolia). My primary school teacher asked everyone to bring in a rinsed 1L soft drink bottle unknowingly to all of us that we were making mini-greenhouses. The teacher chose a variety of plants but A. cordifolia, stood out to me as I thought it was a “broken plant” for i couldn't see the roots. I was assured that it would grow, and it certainly did. “How is this possible?!” I keep wondering and this sparked my quest to discover more about the incredible world of plants.
