A day wandering around the Botanic Gardens is always a welcome retreat from the busy streets of Singapore. The gardens are wonderful with amazing old rainforest trees that soar into the sky giving the sky scrapers some competition.
The collection of orchids, ginger, frangipani and palms is very inspiring for anyone slightly interested in horticulture.
The orchid collection and breeding program is amazing with a new building that has just been opened showing the public into the labs and propagation rooms housing microscopes and 1,000's of beakers with tiny orchids being propagated.
As a part of the new buildings they have installed a green roof and a vertical garden. The vertical garden is very simple with ferns and birds nest ferns having been plug planted into a wall of coco peat and hessian held in place with bird netting. Because of the high rainfall there doesn't seem the need for irrigation. The green roof has been very successful with an interesting mix of plant species that should also be successful in Brisbane.
The collection of orchids, ginger, frangipani and palms is very inspiring for anyone slightly interested in horticulture.
The orchid collection and breeding program is amazing with a new building that has just been opened showing the public into the labs and propagation rooms housing microscopes and 1,000's of beakers with tiny orchids being propagated.
As a part of the new buildings they have installed a green roof and a vertical garden. The vertical garden is very simple with ferns and birds nest ferns having been plug planted into a wall of coco peat and hessian held in place with bird netting. Because of the high rainfall there doesn't seem the need for irrigation. The green roof has been very successful with an interesting mix of plant species that should also be successful in Brisbane.
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