His wife, who understands Thai, enrolled in an agricultural college to study horticulture, and later one of their children, who was studying at a university on Taiwan, learned more from the family of a friend that raised orchids.
他還又「派」懂泰語的太太到農業大學學種花。後來連在台灣念大學的小孩，也到懂蘭藝的友人家學組織培養。