[1] She joined the Singapore Gardening Society in the following year, after meeting botanist Richard Eric Holttum.
[2] Several years later, she worked at a grower's nursery in England during the Summer, where she learned to hybridise and grow seed.
At the show, she won a gold medal and received two first-class certificates for her orchids.
[7] In June, she raised more than $850 through the sale of her orchids at the English-Speaking Union's Midsummer Market in London.
She had also become the vice-president of the Malayan Orchid Society and a member of the Award Judging Panel.