Growing up around orchids did not mean an instant affinity for the blooms for Woon Leng Nursery owner Teo Woon Cheng, 46.
Fresh from a three-year stint as operations manager in a logistics company, Mr Teo - who "didn't even know about pollination" back then - had to learn the trade from scratch when he joined in 2002.
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