About Me - Memories

Pleasure is the flower that passes;

remembrance, the lasting perfume.

 ~Jean de Boufflers

My grateful thanks to Mr Stuart Robinson for creating this wonderful Blotanical community of Garden Bloggers around the world, and

Thank you very much to all Blotanists worldwide who have voted for me.

The Blotanical 2009 Awards:

I joined blotanical and started blogging in June 2009.
In Sept 2009, My Nice Garden was voted:

2nd Best Asian Blog

4th Best Commenter

5th Best Native Plants Blog

MY CHEST OF CYBER TREASURES

The following are prized possessions given at a time when I was a 'newbie blotanist' by my blogger friends from Blotanical which I will treasure and cherish for a long time. It is not the trophies that I wish to collect but the sincere gestures that inspires me most.

On 14th August 2009, Jessica of The Magical Mundane from Michigan, United States has passed along a Meme Award to My Nice Garden which is my first ever award. My grateful thanks to Jessica for giving this award to me. It is indeed very much appreciated and a great honour to me.

"Autumn Bell at My Nice Garden, located in Malaysia. Another spectacular blog that focuses on garden blooms but still adds in highlights of the region. Another tour guide in training" ..... Jessica

I have received this Honest Scrap Award from fellow Blotanist James Missier of Garden Chronicles on October 30, 2009. Thank you very much to James for this award and I am indeed very grateful to him for his encouragement, honest and sincere support of My Nice Garden.

"Its about her urban gardening adventures and personal stories. I often enjoy all the garden stories and the native plants she discovers and write about"..... James

1. On 22 Nov 09, My Nice Garden (MNG) has received a second Honest Scrap Award from Babara_elaine of Gardening in Mannheim, Germany. Her post is titled, "Proud to be an Honest Scrap. "

"Autumn Belle at My Nice Garden. Another blog I've become familiar with through Blotanical, a website where you can find all of these blogs and hundreds more, united by a common love of gardening"..... Babara Elaine 


2. On 23 Nov 09, MNG received a Best Blog Award from LeSan of Blue Gate Gardens. Her post is titled, "The Red Carpet Needs Shampooing".

"My Nice Garden by Autumn Belle is as lovely as she is and a pleasure to visit. She delights me with flowers that are wonderfully exotic to this Northwestern American. She shows me a world I have never seen and I would love to have her as my tour guide if I was ever fortunate enough to travel to her corner of the world ".....LeSan


3. On 27 Nov 09, MNG received a Best Blog Award from Wendy of Greenish Thumb. Her post is titled, "....... why someone would consider this blog "best".

"Autumn Belle (My Nice Garden) in Malaysia, is such an interesting person who will occasionally share cultural aspects that are sometimes very different, but sometimes remotely similar to my own".....Wendy

I would like to thank Babara, LeSan and Wendy for having me in mind when giving out the awards. It feels great to be appreciated.

My Press Articles

Thanks to the wonderful opportunity, I am now a guest columnist and writing fortnightly for News Straits Times Press Berhad's Life & Times Section, Garden Column, Saturday Edition. This was with effect from 12 March 2010. It would have made my parents proud for The New Straits Times was their favourite daily newspaper.

My Nice Garden was mentioned in the February 2011 Home & Decor Magazine, Malaysia edition.